HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080882580
Bassin de Río San Juan
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 : San Carlos
Sub-basin area
1,9km²
Upstream area
25 625,8km²
Discharge
243,93m³/s
Mean elev.
35m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Sardina1020 km²
- Bassin de Río El Consuelo396 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Río San Juan Nicaragua
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
1.93 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
494 distinct species · 5 412 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 San Juan : 25 espèces reliées par 45 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
1 898mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
702mm/an
PET
1 620mm
AET
1 288mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
14cm
Forest
100%
Crops
10%
Urban
83%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)