HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080878660
Bassin de Río Iyás
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, Río Blanco, Siuna, Waslala
Sub-basin area
1 713,5km²
Upstream area
1 713,5km²
Discharge
67,25m³/s
Mean elev.
373m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 851.9 km²49.9% of basin
- 685.1 km²40.1% of basin
- Río BlancoMatagalpa · Nicaragua126.3 km²7.4% of basin
- 43.9 km²2.6% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Bosawas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
1707.13 km² overlap
Bosawas
IUCN IVNature Reserve
233.41 km² overlap
Cerro Saslaya
IUCN IINational Park
29.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
702 distinct species · 3 091 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Iyás : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
24,0°C
Annual rain
2 423mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,34
Runoff
1 221mm/an
PET
1 593mm
AET
1 370mm
Mean slope
9,8°
Water table
308cm
Forest
90%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)