HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080881790
Bassin de Río Chiquito
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 2 administrative regions : Bluefields, Nueva Guinea
Sub-basin area
451,3km²
Upstream area
451,6km²
Discharge
26,17m³/s
Mean elev.
98m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 436.6 km²97.1% of basin
- 13.0 km²2.9% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Río San Juan Nicaragua
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
449.53 km² overlap
Cerro Silva
IUCN IVNature Reserve
175.42 km² overlap
Serranías de Yolaina
IUCN IVNature Reserve
64.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
396 distinct species · 586 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Chiquito : 36 espèces reliées par 52 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.0%, 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
3 368mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,55
Runoff
1 805mm/an
PET
1 492mm
AET
1 383mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
160cm
Forest
99%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)