HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080884160

Bassin de Río Navarro

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 7 administrative regions : Cartago, Desamparados, El Guarco, La Unión, Oreamuno +2

Pfafstetter: 75390208

Sub-basin area

284,3km²

Upstream area

284,5km²

Discharge

20,73m³/s

Mean elev.

1 696m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Reventazón267 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Cartago
Cartago · Costa Rica
161.0 km²
56.9% of basin
El Guarco
Cartago · Costa Rica
91.4 km²
32.3% of basin
Oreamuno
Cartago · Costa Rica
22.2 km²
7.9% of basin
Paraíso
Cartago · Costa Rica
7.9 km²
2.8% of basin
Desamparados
San José · Costa Rica
0.5 km²
0.2% of basin
La Unión
Cartago · Costa Rica
0.1 km²
0.0% of basin
Vázquez de Coronado
San José · Costa Rica
0.0 km²
0.0% of basin

9 intersecting protected areas

Cordillera Volcánica Central
IUCN Not Applicable
UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
283.16 km² overlap
Rio Navarro-Rio Sombrero
IUCN IV
Protected Zone
63.04 km² overlap
Turberas de Talamanca
IUCN Not Reported
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
10.87 km² overlap
Cerros de La Carpintera
IUCN IV
Protected Zone
8.60 km² overlap
Volcan Irazu
IUCN II
National Park
7.07 km² overlap
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park
IUCN Not Applicable
World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
2.37 km² overlap
Rio Macho
IUCN VI
Forest Reserve
1.53 km² overlap
Tapanti-Macizo de la Muerte
IUCN II
National Park
0.63 km² overlap
Cordillera Volcanica Central
IUCN VI
Forest Reserve
0.19 km² overlap

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

Species present

5 204 distinct species · 281 273 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 25 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

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RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Navarro : 18 espèces reliées par 43 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.122

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°

17,1°C

Annual rain

2 094mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,35

Runoff

2 261mm/an

PET

1 313mm

AET

1 141mm

Mean slope

10,9°

Water table

283cm

Forest

65%

Crops

Urban

39%

Protected

28%

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