HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080882630
Bassin de Quebrada El Jícaro
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, San Carlos
Sub-basin area
107,5km²
Upstream area
1 199,8km²
Discharge
33,16m³/s
Mean elev.
31m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Pizote297 km²
- Bassin de Río Las Haciendas240 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 106.3 km²99.4% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.6% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Río San Juan Nicaragua
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
107.04 km² overlap
Archipiélago de Solentiname
IUCN IIINational Monument
11.09 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
4.69 km² overlap
Los Guatuzos
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
4.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
48 distinct species · 70 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 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 El Jícaro : 16 espèces reliées par 11 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
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 846mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
541mm/an
PET
1 652mm
AET
1 275mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
1cm
Forest
1%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)