HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080881590
Bassin de Río El Dorado
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 3 administrative regions : Buenos Aires, Lago de Nicaragua, Nandaime
Sub-basin area
46km²
Upstream area
11 433,7km²
Discharge
100,56m³/s
Mean elev.
54m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Ochomogo499 km²
- Bassin de Río Manares368 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 25.6 km²55.8% of basin
- 16.0 km²34.8% of basin
- Buenos AiresRivas · Nicaragua4.3 km²9.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Archipiélago de Zapatera
IUCN IINational Park
12.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
315 distinct species · 662 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 El Dorado : 30 espèces reliées par 50 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.4%, 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
1 497mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
230mm/an
PET
1 719mm
AET
1 055mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
100cm
Forest
18%
Crops
37%
Urban
0%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)