HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080883780
Bassin de Río General
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 11 administrative regions : Barva, Cartago, Goicoechea, Heredia, Moravia +6
Sub-basin area
571,1km²
Upstream area
571,1km²
Discharge
42,98m³/s
Mean elev.
1 213m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
11 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Vázquez de CoronadoSan José · Costa Rica173.2 km²30.4% of basin
- HerediaHeredia · Costa Rica139.9 km²24.6% of basin
- PococíLimón · Costa Rica114.9 km²20.2% of basin
- OreamunoCartago · Costa Rica80.4 km²14.1% of basin
- SarapiquíHeredia · Costa Rica53.4 km²9.4% of basin
- MoraviaSan José · Costa Rica4.4 km²0.8% of basin
- San RafaelHeredia · Costa Rica1.3 km²0.2% of basin
- GoicoecheaSan José · Costa Rica0.5 km²0.1% of basin
3 moreFull L2 list
- Cartago0.4 km² · 0.1%
- San Isidro0.3 km² · 0.0%
- Barva0.0 km² · 0.0%
5 intersecting protected areas
Cordillera Volcánica Central
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
531.76 km² overlap
Braulio Carrillo
IUCN IINational Park
275.50 km² overlap
Cordillera Volcanica Central
IUCN VIForest Reserve
200.88 km² overlap
Agua y Paz
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
21.16 km² overlap
Volcan Irazu
IUCN IINational Park
6.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 457 distinct species · 357 547 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 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 General : 8 espèces reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 15.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
19,9°C
Annual rain
3 071mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,54
Runoff
2 373mm/an
PET
1 385mm
AET
1 334mm
Mean slope
15,7°
Water table
479cm
Forest
87%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
85%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)