HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080879060
Bassin de Río Grande de Matagalpa
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 2 administrative regions : La Cruz de Río Grande, Río Blanco
Sub-basin area
37,8km²
Upstream area
15 088,5km²
Discharge
468,52m³/s
Mean elev.
90m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Grande de Matagalpa1256 km²
- Bassin de Río Tuma131 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 37.6 km²99.9% of basin
- Río BlancoMatagalpa · Nicaragua0.0 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,0°C
Annual rain
2 848mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,46
Runoff
1 599mm/an
PET
1 544mm
AET
1 387mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
120cm
Forest
13%
Crops
54%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)