HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080879480
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 : Matiguás, San Ramón
Sub-basin area
16,6km²
Upstream area
2 352,5km²
Discharge
31,7m³/s
Mean elev.
327m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Tapasle288 km²
- Bassin de Río Grande de Matagalpa240 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 16.5 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
24,4°C
Annual rain
1 600mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,02
Runoff
699mm/an
PET
1 630mm
AET
1 176mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
254cm
Forest
55%
Crops
29%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)