HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080884460
Bassin de Río Changuinola
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 1 administrative regions : Changuinola
Sub-basin area
425,1km²
Upstream area
1 800,7km²
Discharge
85,18m³/s
Mean elev.
477m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Culubre561 km²
- Bassin de Río Changuinola XII121 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ChanguinolaBocas del Toro · Panama423.4 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Palo Seco
IUCN VProtective Forest
393.23 km² overlap
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
107.09 km² overlap
La Amistad
IUCN IINational Park
98.05 km² overlap
Reserva de la Biósfera de La Amistad
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
85.41 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 095 distinct species · 10 413 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 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 Changuinola : 16 espèces reliées par 19 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
23,6°C
Annual rain
2 836mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
1 631mm/an
PET
1 478mm
AET
1 455mm
Mean slope
14,7°
Water table
457cm
Forest
53%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
93%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)