HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080882120
Bassin de Río Gil González
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 : Altagracia, Belén, Buenos Aires, Lago de Nicaragua, Moyogalpa +5
Sub-basin area
1 097,9km²
Upstream area
12 915,1km²
Discharge
58,72m³/s
Mean elev.
56m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 4 basins
- Bassin de Quebrada de Enmedio384 km²
- Bassin de Quebrada Grande222 km²
- Bassin · #708008509050 km²
- Bassin de Río El Dorado46 km²
10 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 558.8 km²51.1% of basin
- 142.8 km²13.1% of basin
- 109.6 km²10.0% of basin
- 73.9 km²6.8% of basin
- Buenos AiresRivas · Nicaragua69.1 km²6.3% of basin
- 59.2 km²5.4% of basin
- 32.2 km²2.9% of basin
- 22.3 km²2.0% of basin
2 moreFull L2 list
- Moyogalpa17.9 km² · 1.6%
- Altagracia7.8 km² · 0.7%
4 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Isla de Ometepe
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
59.07 km² overlap
Reserva de Biosfera Río San Juan Nicaragua
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
21.67 km² overlap
Archipiélago de Zapatera
IUCN IINational Park
4.80 km² overlap
Volcán Concepción
IUCN IVNature Reserve
3.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 042 distinct species · 10 645 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Gil González : 36 espèces reliées par 58 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.6%, 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
1 535mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
324mm/an
PET
1 706mm
AET
1 079mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
69cm
Forest
12%
Crops
36%
Urban
2%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)