HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080879210
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 3 administrative regions : La Cruz de Río Grande, Laguna de Perlas, Prinzapolka
Sub-basin area
780,7km²
Upstream area
17 914,9km²
Discharge
586,02m³/s
Mean elev.
23m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Grande de Matagalpa403 km²
- Bassin de Río Makantaca392 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 623.1 km²80.1% of basin
- 94.2 km²12.1% of basin
- 60.4 km²7.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Makantaka
IUCN IVNature Reserve
24.80 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
108 distinct species · 188 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 : 33 espèces reliées par 39 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
2 767mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
1 186mm/an
PET
1 448mm
AET
1 317mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
17cm
Forest
89%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)