HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080883490
Bassin de Río Tempisque
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 6 administrative regions : Bagaces, Carrillo, La Cruz, Liberia, Santa Cruz +1
Sub-basin area
1 316,3km²
Upstream area
1 316,7km²
Discharge
39,85m³/s
Mean elev.
265m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Liberia867.5 km²66.2% of basin
- 370.2 km²28.2% of basin
- La Cruz68.9 km²5.3% of basin
- UpalaAlajuela · Costa Rica4.2 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
- Bagaces0.0 km²0.0% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Area de Conservación Guanacaste
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
285.79 km² overlap
Guanacaste
IUCN IINational Park
132.24 km² overlap
Rincon de la Vieja
IUCN IINational Park
59.06 km² overlap
Santa Rosa
IUCN IINational Park
17.32 km² overlap
Guanacaste
IUCN IVProtected Zone
6.98 km² overlap
Riberino Zapandi
IUCN IIWetland
4.44 km² overlap
Palo Verde
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
4.43 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 254 distinct species · 546 282 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 Río Tempisque : 20 espèces reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 10.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
1 891mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
1 071mm/an
PET
1 695mm
AET
1 153mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
149cm
Forest
40%
Crops
40%
Urban
1%
Protected
21%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)