HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080876660
Bassin de Río Poteca
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 7 administrative regions across 2 countries : Catacamas, Danlí, Jalapa, Murra, Patuca +2
Sub-basin area
1 291,5km²
Upstream area
1 291,5km²
Discharge
14,87m³/s
Mean elev.
771m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 626.5 km²48.7% of basin
- 388.4 km²30.2% of basin
- 233.8 km²18.2% of basin
- 32.9 km²2.6% of basin
- 2.8 km²0.2% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Bosawas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
42.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
832 distinct species · 3 329 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Poteca : 22 espèces reliées par 30 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.9%, 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
1 627mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
375mm/an
PET
1 637mm
AET
1 222mm
Mean slope
12,3°
Water table
506cm
Forest
65%
Crops
14%
Urban
1%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)