HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080877220
Bassin de Río Awaswás
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 : El Cuá, Rancho Grande, Waslala, Wiwilí
Sub-basin area
657,7km²
Upstream area
657,8km²
Discharge
16,46m³/s
Mean elev.
637m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 540.4 km²82.5% of basin
- 83.4 km²12.7% of basin
- Rancho GrandeMatagalpa · Nicaragua30.6 km²4.7% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Bosawas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
640.05 km² overlap
Cerro Kilambé
IUCN IVNature Reserve
11.89 km² overlap
Macizos de Peñas Blancas
IUCN IVNature Reserve
10.28 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
960 distinct species · 3 747 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 13 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 Awaswás : 13 espèces reliées par 10 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 12.8%, 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°
22,6°C
Annual rain
2 086mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,24
Runoff
793mm/an
PET
1 576mm
AET
1 303mm
Mean slope
11,3°
Water table
417cm
Forest
91%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
98%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)