HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080878670
Bassin de Río Tuma
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 3 administrative regions : Rancho Grande, Río Blanco, Waslala
Sub-basin area
646,5km²
Upstream area
3 757,4km²
Discharge
104,51m³/s
Mean elev.
261m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Tuma2441 km²
- Bassin de Río Yaosca670 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Río BlancoMatagalpa · Nicaragua413.7 km²64.2% of basin
- 227.5 km²35.3% of basin
- Rancho GrandeMatagalpa · Nicaragua2.8 km²0.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Bosawas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
301.58 km² overlap
Cerro Musún
IUCN IVNature Reserve
16.58 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
506 distinct species · 1 471 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Tuma : 23 espèces reliées par 39 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
24,4°C
Annual rain
2 685mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,41
Runoff
1 294mm/an
PET
1 591mm
AET
1 397mm
Mean slope
7,7°
Water table
290cm
Forest
60%
Crops
29%
Urban
1%
Protected
50%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)