HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080874410
Bassin de Quebrada Amoiwas
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 2 administrative regions : El Cuá, Wiwilí
Sub-basin area
122,3km²
Upstream area
3 307,1km²
Discharge
105,5m³/s
Mean elev.
266m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Amaka700 km²
- Bassin de Río Bocay362 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 119.6 km²98.1% of basin
- 2.3 km²1.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Bosawas
IUCN IVNature Reserve
121.86 km² overlap
Reserva de Biosfera Bosawas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
121.86 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
491 distinct species · 1 355 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 5 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 Quebrada Amoiwas : 5 espèces reliées par 4 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 40.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,2°C
Annual rain
2 039mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,20
Runoff
1 082mm/an
PET
1 622mm
AET
1 372mm
Mean slope
6,0°
Water table
211cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)