HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080883440
Bassin de Río Salto
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 4 administrative regions : Bagaces, Carrillo, Liberia, Upala
Sub-basin area
224,8km²
Upstream area
224,8km²
Discharge
8,85m³/s
Mean elev.
187m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Liberia159.0 km²71.0% of basin
- Bagaces64.7 km²28.9% of basin
- UpalaAlajuela · Costa Rica0.2 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Rincon de la Vieja
IUCN IINational Park
11.70 km² overlap
Area de Conservación Guanacaste
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
5.28 km² overlap
Riberino Zapandi
IUCN IIWetland
0.04 km² overlap
Palo Verde
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
820 distinct species · 16 403 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Salto : 21 espèces reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.7%, 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°
25,5°C
Annual rain
1 819mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
1 182mm/an
PET
1 722mm
AET
1 152mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
102cm
Forest
32%
Crops
59%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)