HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080879090
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 5 administrative regions : Bocana de Paiwas, Camoapa, El Rama, La Cruz de Río Grande, Río Blanco
Sub-basin area
1 256,4km²
Upstream area
7 710,6km²
Discharge
196,6m³/s
Mean elev.
206m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Paiwas465 km²
- Bassin de Río Quisaura417 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 562.2 km²44.9% of basin
- Río BlancoMatagalpa · Nicaragua421.2 km²33.6% of basin
- 173.3 km²13.8% of basin
- 52.4 km²4.2% of basin
- 42.5 km²3.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 387 distinct species · 5 793 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Grande de Matagalpa : 28 espèces reliées par 37 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
2 734mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
1 410mm/an
PET
1 545mm
AET
1 362mm
Mean slope
5,7°
Water table
224cm
Forest
16%
Crops
55%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)