HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080878090
Bassin de Río Prinzapolka
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 : La Cruz de Río Grande, Prinzapolka, Río Blanco, Siuna
Sub-basin area
1 616,1km²
Upstream area
3 922,3km²
Discharge
185,43m³/s
Mean elev.
77m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Labú572 km²
- Bassin de Río Prinzapolka274 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 747.1 km²46.4% of basin
- 671.1 km²41.7% of basin
- 180.9 km²11.2% of basin
- Río BlancoMatagalpa · Nicaragua10.9 km²0.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Bosawas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
620.90 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
324 distinct species · 1 050 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 Prinzapolka : 25 espèces reliées par 37 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.5%, 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
2 646mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,41
Runoff
1 496mm/an
PET
1 551mm
AET
1 385mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
73cm
Forest
55%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
39%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)