HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080874440
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, Trojes, Wiwilí
Sub-basin area
2 645,8km²
Upstream area
11 601,6km²
Discharge
168,26m³/s
Mean elev.
571m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Poteca1292 km²
- Bassin de Río Coco635 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1351.7 km²51.3% of basin
- 706.5 km²26.8% of basin
- 576.5 km²21.9% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Bosawas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
1353.23 km² overlap
Patuca
IUCN VINational Park
924.00 km² overlap
Bosawas
IUCN IVNature Reserve
572.36 km² overlap
Cerro Kilambé
IUCN IVNature Reserve
28.40 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 357 distinct species · 6 929 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 : 26 espèces reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
23,6°C
Annual rain
1 832mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
636mm/an
PET
1 635mm
AET
1 296mm
Mean slope
13,6°
Water table
459cm
Forest
94%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
86%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)