HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080882350
Bassin de Quebrada Guatales
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 : Lago de Nicaragua, Tola
Sub-basin area
381,7km²
Upstream area
22 081,3km²
Discharge
170,77m³/s
Mean elev.
54m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Tepenaguasapa1527 km²
- Bassin de Río Amayo774 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 302.0 km²79.5% of basin
- 77.6 km²20.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Río San Juan Nicaragua
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
106.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
440 distinct species · 9 214 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Quebrada Guatales : 22 espèces reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
1 959mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,14
Runoff
420mm/an
PET
1 678mm
AET
1 256mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
46cm
Forest
16%
Crops
26%
Urban
0%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)