HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080873280
Bassin de Río Coco
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 across 2 countries : Catacamas, El Cuá, Waspán, Wiwilí
Sub-basin area
718,4km²
Upstream area
15 626,8km²
Discharge
290,24m³/s
Mean elev.
253m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Coco2646 km²
- Bassin de Quebrada Amoiwas122 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 387.0 km²54.1% of basin
- 327.8 km²45.8% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Patuca
IUCN VINational Park
376.08 km² overlap
Bosawas
IUCN IVNature Reserve
324.94 km² overlap
Reserva de Biosfera Bosawas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
324.94 km² overlap
Tawahka Asagni
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
9.51 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
885 distinct species · 3 288 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 Coco : 18 espèces reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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
1 972mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
931mm/an
PET
1 633mm
AET
1 366mm
Mean slope
6,9°
Water table
248cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)