HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080884980
Bassin de Río Grande de Térraba
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 : Buenos Aires
Sub-basin area
13,9km²
Upstream area
4 139,3km²
Discharge
283,23m³/s
Mean elev.
190m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Coto Brus1614 km²
- Bassin de Río General332 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Buenos AiresPuntarenas · Costa Rica13.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
La Amistad
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
2.73 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
497 distinct species · 3 263 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Grande de Térraba : 21 espèces reliées par 37 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
2 916mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,41
Runoff
2 250mm/an
PET
1 722mm
AET
1 474mm
Mean slope
6,8°
Water table
291cm
Forest
0%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)