World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · hnd
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve
- Area
- 5 060 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 1982
Overview
- Designation
- World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
- Established
- 1982
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 981 distinct species · 42 812 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 17 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 Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve : 11 espèces reliées par 22 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology10 basins · 4 lakes · 25 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
522,6km
Lake surface here
66,37km²
Basins crossed
10
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
23 513km²
Discharge in basins
245,4m³/s
Mean precip.
2 341mm/an
Mean T°
25,3°C
Moisture idx
0,34
Mean runoff
1 100mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
370m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Río Wampusub-area2 582,8 km²overlap1466.92 km²29%
- Bassin de Río Plátanosub-area1 410,4 km²overlap1405.41 km²28%
- Bassin de Río Paulayasub-area1 481 km²overlap698.17 km²14%
- Bassin de Río Twassub-area364,4 km²overlap363.10 km²7%
- Bassin de Río La Cribasub-area355,3 km²overlap354.09 km²7%
- Bassin de Rio Sigresub-area1 044,6 km²overlap284.02 km²6%
- Bassin de Río Sico / Tinto / Negrosub-area293,9 km²overlap197.18 km²4%
- Bassin de Río Patucasub-area2 687,9 km²overlap60.50 km²1%
- Bassin de Río Amatingni / Tom Tomsub-area560,4 km²overlap9.89 km²0%
1 more basinssorted by overlap
Lakes (4, top by area)
Rivers / streams (25, ord ≥ 4)
- Río Wampuord 4len here96.03 km60%total160 km
- Río Anerord 4len here72.45 km99%total73 km
- Río Paulayaord 4len here68.33 km33%total210 km
- Río Plátanoord 4len here46.84 km100%total47 km
- Ahua-huásord 2len here45.11 km100%total45 km
- Río Paoord 4len here38.86 km74%total52 km
- Río Sico / Tinto / Negroord 5len here26.69 km13%total212 km
- Río Sicre / Sikriord 4len here26.27 km56%total47 km
- Río Twasord 3len here16.96 km100%total17 km
- Río Guaraskaord 4len here13.03 km100%total13 km
- Río Lagartoord 2len here10.54 km100%total11 km
- Quebrada de Las Niguasord 4len here9.24 km95%total10 km
13 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Quebrada del Papayoord 2len here8.69 km100%total9 km
- Rio Maloord 1len here7.76 km100%total8 km
- Río Culucoord 1len here7.08 km100%total7 km
- Río Tilasuntaord 2len here6.87 km100%total7 km
- Crique Wilmuntingord 1len here5.81 km100%total6 km
- Río del Guanoord 2len here5.60 km100%total6 km
- Crique Calilatingniord 1len here3.15 km100%total3 km
- Crique Tilasuntaord 1len here2.62 km100%total3 km
- Crique Calilatingniord 1len here2.07 km100%total2 km
- Río La Cribaord 2len here1.92 km100%total2 km
- Rio Sigreord 4len here0.49 km1%total75 km
- Río Wampúord 6len here0.12 km0%total33 km
- Río Palaciosord 1len here0.10 km8%total1 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 15.48698, -85.08615
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.