HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080879680
Bassin de Río Quisaura
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 : Boaco, Bocana de Paiwas, Camoapa, La Libertad, Matiguás
Sub-basin area
416,8km²
Upstream area
5 989,6km²
Discharge
114,66m³/s
Mean elev.
298m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Murra1120 km²
- Bassin de Río Grande de Matagalpa639 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 237.4 km²57.2% of basin
- 112.0 km²27.0% of basin
- 65.2 km²15.7% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
130 distinct species · 222 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Quisaura : 22 espèces reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
24,4°C
Annual rain
2 164mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,28
Runoff
1 045mm/an
PET
1 564mm
AET
1 325mm
Mean slope
6,4°
Water table
253cm
Forest
32%
Crops
45%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)