HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080884360
Bassin de Rio Telire
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 4 administrative regions : Buenos Aires, Limón, Pérez Zeledón, Talamanca
Sub-basin area
336,1km²
Upstream area
336,1km²
Discharge
23,1m³/s
Mean elev.
2 314m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- TalamancaLimón · Costa Rica331.8 km²99.1% of basin
- Pérez ZeledónSan José · Costa Rica1.9 km²0.6% of basin
- LimónLimón · Costa Rica0.9 km²0.3% of basin
- Buenos AiresPuntarenas · Costa Rica0.1 km²0.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
La Amistad
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
334.70 km² overlap
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
313.93 km² overlap
Turberas de Talamanca
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
244.27 km² overlap
Internacional La Amistad
IUCN IINational Park
194.84 km² overlap
Chirripo
IUCN IINational Park
121.89 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
375 distinct species · 795 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 47 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 Rio Telire : 45 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 39 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 3.6%, 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°
13,4°C
Annual rain
3 376mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,66
Runoff
2 175mm/an
PET
1 126mm
AET
1 088mm
Mean slope
18,7°
Water table
513cm
Forest
96%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
94%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)