HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080881080
Bassin de Río Malacatoya
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 10 administrative regions : Boaco, Ciudad Darío, Esquipulas, Granada, Lago de Nicaragua +5
Sub-basin area
1 574,2km²
Upstream area
1 574,5km²
Discharge
13,67m³/s
Mean elev.
290m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
10 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 639.1 km²40.8% of basin
- San LorenzoBoaco · Nicaragua295.4 km²18.8% of basin
- 229.6 km²14.6% of basin
- San José de los RematesBoaco · Nicaragua148.0 km²9.4% of basin
- Santa LucíaBoaco · Nicaragua103.5 km²6.6% of basin
- 49.0 km²3.1% of basin
- 48.0 km²3.1% of basin
- Ciudad DaríoMatagalpa · Nicaragua47.7 km²3.0% of basin
2 moreFull L2 list
- Lago de Nicaragua7.1 km² · 0.5%
- Esquipulas0.7 km² · 0.0%
3 intersecting protected areas
Cerro Cumaica – Cerro Alegre
IUCN IVNature Reserve
61.23 km² overlap
Sistema Lagunar de Tisma
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
13.27 km² overlap
Laguna de Tisma
IUCN IVNature Reserve
7.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 272 distinct species · 15 519 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 Malacatoya : 22 espèces reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 219mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
339mm/an
PET
1 642mm
AET
962mm
Mean slope
6,6°
Water table
334cm
Forest
19%
Crops
40%
Urban
2%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)