HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080881060
Bassin de Río Tipitapa
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 16 administrative regions : Ciudad Darío, Granada, La Concepción, Lago de Managua, Lago de Nicaragua +11
Sub-basin area
2 174,7km²
Upstream area
6 738,8km²
Discharge
67,65m³/s
Mean elev.
148m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Quebrada865 km²
- Bassin de Río Pacora (Río La Trinidad)614 km²
16 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 733.2 km²33.8% of basin
- Lago de ManaguaManagua · Nicaragua394.4 km²18.2% of basin
- 384.8 km²17.8% of basin
- 110.0 km²5.1% of basin
- San Francisco LibreManagua · Nicaragua105.0 km²4.8% of basin
- 102.2 km²4.7% of basin
- 94.5 km²4.4% of basin
- 89.5 km²4.1% of basin
8 moreFull L2 list
- Masaya55.0 km² · 2.5%
- Ticuantepe53.4 km² · 2.5%
- Lago de Nicaragua17.0 km² · 0.8%
- La Concepción12.6 km² · 0.6%
- Ciudad Darío8.5 km² · 0.4%
- Villa Carlos Fonseca5.5 km² · 0.3%
- San Lorenzo0.5 km² · 0.0%
- San Marcos0.0 km² · 0.0%
8 intersecting protected areas
Sistema Lagunar de Tisma
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
157.29 km² overlap
Laguna de Tisma
IUCN IVNature Reserve
93.55 km² overlap
Península de Chiltepe
IUCN IVNature Reserve
23.09 km² overlap
Volcán Masaya
IUCN IINational Park
21.87 km² overlap
Chocoyero – El Brujo
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
2.79 km² overlap
Laguna de Nejapa
IUCN IVNature Reserve
2.28 km² overlap
Laguna de Asososca
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.20 km² overlap
Laguna de Tiscapa
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.29 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 527 distinct species · 350 255 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Tipitapa : 19 espèces reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
1 179mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
294mm/an
PET
1 710mm
AET
932mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
141cm
Forest
18%
Crops
36%
Urban
15%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)