HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080054600
Bassin de Río Indio
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 3 administrative regions : Bluefields, San Carlos, San Juan del Norte
Sub-basin area
1 268,4km²
Upstream area
1 268,4km²
Discharge
100,74m³/s
Mean elev.
115m
Administrative coverage
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 670.9 km²53.1% of basin
- 301.9 km²23.9% of basin
- 290.6 km²23.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Río San Juan Nicaragua
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
1263.35 km² overlap
Río Indio Maíz
IUCN IaBiological Reserve
1245.66 km² overlap
Río San Juan
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
16.24 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
16.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 407 distinct species · 5 442 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Indio : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 30 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (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 495mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,66
Runoff
2 326mm/an
PET
1 506mm
AET
1 478mm
Mean slope
4,7°
Water table
165cm
Forest
82%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)