HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080054560
Bassin de Río Maíz
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 1 administrative regions : Bluefields
Sub-basin area
913,4km²
Upstream area
913,4km²
Discharge
0,34m³/s
Mean elev.
103m
Administrative coverage
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 890.0 km²97.8% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Río San Juan Nicaragua
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
909.82 km² overlap
Río Indio Maíz
IUCN IaBiological Reserve
868.06 km² overlap
Río San Juan
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
19.63 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
19.63 km² overlap
Punta Gorda
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.82 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
837 distinct species · 2 695 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 12 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Maíz : 11 espèces reliées par 8 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,4°C
Annual rain
4 292mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,65
Runoff
2 307mm/an
PET
1 488mm
AET
1 451mm
Mean slope
4,4°
Water table
142cm
Forest
90%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)