HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080877890
Bassin de Río Estelí
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 14 administrative regions : Condega, Estelí, La Concordia, Las Sabanas, Palacagüina +9
Sub-basin area
1 324,7km²
Upstream area
1 324,8km²
Discharge
19,82m³/s
Mean elev.
862m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
14 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 464.0 km²35.2% of basin
- 256.3 km²19.4% of basin
- Pueblo NuevoEstelí · Nicaragua210.7 km²16.0% of basin
- 162.7 km²12.3% of basin
- 59.5 km²4.5% of basin
- 48.3 km²3.7% of basin
- 47.0 km²3.6% of basin
- 34.8 km²2.6% of basin
6 moreFull L2 list
- San Lucas15.3 km² · 1.2%
- San Juan de Limay14.9 km² · 1.1%
- San Nicolás3.0 km² · 0.2%
- Las Sabanas1.7 km² · 0.1%
- San Sebastián de Yalí1.1 km² · 0.1%
- La Concordia0.6 km² · 0.0%
5 intersecting protected areas
Protected Landscape
109.01 km² overlap
Cerro Tisey – Estanzuela
IUCN IVNature Reserve
34.70 km² overlap
Tepesomoto – Pataste
IUCN IVNature Reserve
32.45 km² overlap
Cerro Quiabuc – Las Brisas
IUCN IVNature Reserve
23.12 km² overlap
Cerro Tomabú
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 026 distinct species · 51 833 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Estelí : 29 espèces reliées par 61 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
21,9°C
Annual rain
1 113mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
484mm/an
PET
1 590mm
AET
869mm
Mean slope
9,4°
Water table
440cm
Forest
9%
Crops
36%
Urban
5%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)