HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080884530
Bassin de Río Pacuar
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 : Pérez Zeledón
Sub-basin area
312,9km²
Upstream area
312,9km²
Discharge
21,78m³/s
Mean elev.
997m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Pérez ZeledónSan José · Costa Rica311.6 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
La Amistad
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
254.26 km² overlap
Savegre
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
54.53 km² overlap
Los Santos
IUCN VIForest Reserve
1.56 km² overlap
Turberas de Talamanca
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 668 distinct species · 170 201 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Pacuar : 20 espèces reliées par 19 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.9%, 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°
21,4°C
Annual rain
3 309mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
2 250mm/an
PET
1 639mm
AET
1 403mm
Mean slope
11,4°
Water table
368cm
Forest
88%
Crops
4%
Urban
10%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)