HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080881960
Bassin de Río Punta Gorda
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
146,6km²
Upstream area
650,6km²
Discharge
27,95m³/s
Mean elev.
128m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Punta Gorda335 km²
- Bassin de Caño Chacalín170 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 139.6 km²95.6% of basin
- 6.5 km²4.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Río San Juan Nicaragua
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
146.04 km² overlap
Punta Gorda
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
162 distinct species · 193 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Punta Gorda : 30 espèces reliées par 39 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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
2 918mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
1 607mm/an
PET
1 502mm
AET
1 360mm
Mean slope
4,7°
Water table
191cm
Forest
100%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)