HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080881830
Bassin de Caño El Naranjo
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 1 administrative regions : Bluefields
Sub-basin area
82,6km²
Upstream area
2 114,2km²
Discharge
114,86m³/s
Mean elev.
88m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Chiquito451 km²
- Bassin de Río Rama328 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 82.2 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Río San Juan Nicaragua
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
82.25 km² overlap
Punta Gorda
IUCN IVNature Reserve
76.61 km² overlap
Cerro Silva
IUCN IVNature Reserve
5.63 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
38 distinct species · 42 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,4°C
Annual rain
4 004mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,63
Runoff
2 214mm/an
PET
1 478mm
AET
1 426mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
206cm
Forest
100%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)