HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080879340
Bassin de Río Villa Nueva
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 : Chinandega, Somotillo, Villanueva
Sub-basin area
526,6km²
Upstream area
1 482,8km²
Discharge
37,04m³/s
Mean elev.
37m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Quebrada La Teosinta159 km²
- Bassin de Río Grande87 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- VillanuevaChinandega · Nicaragua347.0 km²66.1% of basin
- 177.4 km²33.8% of basin
- ChinandegaChinandega · Nicaragua0.3 km²0.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
114.87 km² overlap
Delta Estero Real
IUCN IVNature Reserve
99.09 km² overlap
Llanos de Apacunca
IUCN IVGenetic Resources Reserve
15.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
389 distinct species · 3 334 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Villa Nueva : 18 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 60 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 18 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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
1 760mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
794mm/an
PET
1 894mm
AET
1 151mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
54cm
Forest
21%
Crops
35%
Urban
1%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)