HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080055130
Bassin de Río Caña
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 4 administrative regions : Bocas del Toro, Kankintú, Kusapín, Müna
Sub-basin area
1 172,3km²
Upstream area
1 172,3km²
Discharge
11,11m³/s
Mean elev.
274m
Administrative coverage
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Kusapín893.2 km²76.5% of basin
- Kankintú191.2 km²16.4% of basin
- 21.5 km²1.8% of basin
- Bocas del ToroBocas del Toro · Panama0.1 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Damani-Guariviara
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
249.00 km² overlap
Escudo de Veraguas
IUCN VProtected Landscape
18.28 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
503 distinct species · 1 593 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Caña : 29 espèces reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
3 376mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,56
Runoff
1 095mm/an
PET
1 485mm
AET
1 450mm
Mean slope
8,4°
Water table
244cm
Forest
89%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)