HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080884960
Bassin de Río Changuinola XII
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 3 administrative regions : Boquete, Changuinola, Kankintú
Sub-basin area
339,8km²
Upstream area
339,9km²
Discharge
15,79m³/s
Mean elev.
1 270m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ChanguinolaBocas del Toro · Panama307.8 km²91.0% of basin
- 26.4 km²7.8% of basin
- Kankintú4.2 km²1.2% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Palo Seco
IUCN VProtective Forest
290.67 km² overlap
Reserva de la Biósfera de La Amistad
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
230.72 km² overlap
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
215.06 km² overlap
La Amistad
IUCN IINational Park
204.51 km² overlap
Volcán Barú
IUCN IINational Park
0.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
429 distinct species · 836 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 XII : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 43 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
19,8°C
Annual rain
2 767mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,49
Runoff
1 586mm/an
PET
1 395mm
AET
1 296mm
Mean slope
17,6°
Water table
442cm
Forest
89%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)