HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080884300
Bassin de Río Lari
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 2 administrative regions : Buenos Aires, Talamanca
Sub-basin area
746,2km²
Upstream area
746,3km²
Discharge
46,95m³/s
Mean elev.
1 460m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- TalamancaLimón · Costa Rica742.8 km²100.0% of basin
- Buenos AiresPuntarenas · Costa Rica0.4 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
La Amistad
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
743.14 km² overlap
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
503.63 km² overlap
Internacional La Amistad
IUCN IINational Park
502.87 km² overlap
Turberas de Talamanca
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
203.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 596 distinct species · 13 923 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
18,4°C
Annual rain
3 100mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,55
Runoff
2 007mm/an
PET
1 363mm
AET
1 304mm
Mean slope
19,6°
Water table
498cm
Forest
91%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
68%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)