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
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
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)