HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080884120
Bassin de Río Reventazón
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 5 administrative regions : Alvarado, Jiménez, Oreamuno, Paraíso, Turrialba
Sub-basin area
267,2km²
Upstream area
936,5km²
Discharge
72,6m³/s
Mean elev.
1 507m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Grande de Orosi385 km²
- Bassin de Río Navarro284 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ParaísoCartago · Costa Rica101.4 km²38.1% of basin
- AlvaradoCartago · Costa Rica52.5 km²19.7% of basin
- OreamunoCartago · Costa Rica49.8 km²18.7% of basin
- JiménezCartago · Costa Rica49.0 km²18.4% of basin
- TurrialbaCartago · Costa Rica13.4 km²5.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Cordillera Volcánica Central
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
266.11 km² overlap
Volcan Irazu
IUCN IINational Park
3.00 km² overlap
Cordillera Volcanica Central
IUCN VIForest Reserve
2.52 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 562 distinct species · 394 924 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Reventazón : 17 espèces reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 13.0%, 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°
18,1°C
Annual rain
2 574mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,46
Runoff
2 414mm/an
PET
1 353mm
AET
1 280mm
Mean slope
11,7°
Water table
257cm
Forest
59%
Crops
8%
Urban
20%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)