HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080884170

Bassin de Río Grande de Orosi

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, Dota, El Guarco, Jiménez, Paraíso +2

Pfafstetter: 75390209

Sub-basin area

384,9km²

Upstream area

384,9km²

Discharge

29,48m³/s

Mean elev.

2 285m

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)

Paraíso
Cartago · Costa Rica
259.6 km²
67.7% of basin
El Guarco
Cartago · Costa Rica
63.1 km²
16.5% of basin
Cartago
Cartago · Costa Rica
59.3 km²
15.5% of basin
Turrialba
Cartago · Costa Rica
0.8 km²
0.2% of basin
Dota
San José · Costa Rica
0.5 km²
0.1% of basin
Pérez Zeledón
San José · Costa Rica
0.0 km²
0.0% of basin
Jiménez
Cartago · Costa Rica
0.0 km²
0.0% of basin

12 intersecting protected areas

Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park
IUCN Not Applicable
World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
303.96 km² overlap
La Amistad
IUCN Not Applicable
UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
291.94 km² overlap
Tapanti-Macizo de la Muerte
IUCN II
National Park
272.51 km² overlap
Turberas de Talamanca
IUCN Not Reported
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
259.07 km² overlap
Cordillera Volcánica Central
IUCN Not Applicable
UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
91.02 km² overlap
Rio Macho
IUCN VI
Forest Reserve
29.69 km² overlap
Savegre
IUCN Not Applicable
UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
2.78 km² overlap
Los Quetzales
IUCN II
National Park
1.68 km² overlap
Chirripo
IUCN II
National Park
0.88 km² overlap

3 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Los Santos
IUCN VI
Forest Reserve
0.78 km² overlap
Rio Navarro-Rio Sombrero
IUCN IV
Protected Zone
0.25 km² overlap
Cerro Las Vueltas
IUCN Ia
Biological Reserve
0.10 km² overlap

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

Species present

5 347 distinct species · 127 002 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 11 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 Grande de Orosi : 8 espèces reliées par 10 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 18.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.182

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°

13,6°C

Annual rain

3 173mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,63

Runoff

2 352mm/an

PET

1 120mm

AET

1 080mm

Mean slope

15,2°

Water table

415cm

Forest

90%

Crops

Urban

Protected

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