HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080883470

Bassin de Río Sarapiquí

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 8 administrative regions : Alajuela, Barva, Heredia, Poás, Río Cuarto +3

Pfafstetter: 75380206

Sub-basin area

846,5km²

Upstream area

846,9km²

Discharge

62,55m³/s

Mean elev.

728m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Sardinal323 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Sarapiquí
Heredia · Costa Rica
609.9 km²
72.3% of basin
Heredia
Heredia · Costa Rica
116.9 km²
13.9% of basin
Alajuela
Alajuela · Costa Rica
109.1 km²
12.9% of basin
Río Cuarto
Alajuela · Costa Rica
4.3 km²
0.5% of basin
Santa Bárbara
Heredia · Costa Rica
2.2 km²
0.3% of basin
Barva
Heredia · Costa Rica
0.3 km²
0.0% of basin
Poás
Alajuela · Costa Rica
0.2 km²
0.0% of basin
Sarchí
Alajuela · Costa Rica
0.2 km²
0.0% of basin

10 intersecting protected areas

Cordillera Volcánica Central
IUCN Not Applicable
UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
736.05 km² overlap
Braulio Carrillo
IUCN II
National Park
204.94 km² overlap
Cordillera Volcanica Central
IUCN VI
Forest Reserve
108.53 km² overlap
Agua y Paz
IUCN Not Applicable
UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
108.20 km² overlap
Volcan Poas
IUCN II
National Park
27.97 km² overlap
La Selva
IUCN IV
Protected Zone
25.12 km² overlap
La Tirimbina
IUCN VI
National Wildlife Refuge
2.94 km² overlap
Lapa Verde
IUCN VI
National Wildlife Refuge
2.33 km² overlap
Rio Toro
IUCN IV
Protected Zone
0.03 km² overlap

1 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Bosque Alegre
IUCN VI
National Wildlife Refuge
0.01 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

14 379 distinct species · 2 587 755 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 9 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Sarapiquí : 7 espèces reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 19.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.194

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

22,7°C

Annual rain

3 865mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,62

Runoff

2 314mm/an

PET

1 477mm

AET

1 461mm

Mean slope

7,0°

Water table

126cm

Forest

64%

Crops

Urban

Protected

43%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)