HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080880020
Bassin de Río Murra
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, Camoapa, Juigalpa, La Libertad, Matiguás
Sub-basin area
1 119,7km²
Upstream area
1 120km²
Discharge
17,3m³/s
Mean elev.
413m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 782.5 km²70.1% of basin
- 187.6 km²16.8% of basin
- 81.6 km²7.3% of basin
- 58.3 km²5.2% of basin
- 5.4 km²0.5% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Fila Masigüe
IUCN IVNature Reserve
45.27 km² overlap
Sierra Amerrisque
IUCN IVNature Reserve
18.51 km² overlap
Cerro Mombachito – La Vieja
IUCN IVNature Reserve
3.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 304 distinct species · 5 436 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Murra : 27 espèces reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 5.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
1 711mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
650mm/an
PET
1 561mm
AET
1 198mm
Mean slope
6,9°
Water table
302cm
Forest
52%
Crops
34%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)