Wildlife Refuge · nic
Río San Juan
- Area
- 434 km²
- IUCN cat.
- IV
- Year
- 1999
Overview
- Designation
- Wildlife Refuge
- IUCN category
- IV · Aire d'habitats / espèces
Gestion active pour maintenir habitats / espèces particuliers
- Established
- 1999
- Managing authority
- Ministerio del Ambiente y Los Recursos Naturales (MARENA)
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 594 distinct species · 15 266 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 San Juan : 20 espèces + 3 bulles famille, 18 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 3 bulles regroupent des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 4 lakes · 43 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
234,2km
Lake surface here
4,50km²
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
7
Max drainage
41 214km²
Discharge in basins
267,8m³/s
Mean precip.
4 825mm/an
Mean T°
25,8°C
Moisture idx
0,68
Mean runoff
2 572mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
63m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Caño Agua Zarcasub-area569 km²overlap218.24 km²50%
- Bassin de Río San Juansub-area544,1 km²overlap72.09 km²17%
- Bassin de Río San Juansub-area304,9 km²overlap49.72 km²11%
- Bassin de Río Coloradosub-area1 057,7 km²overlap43.87 km²10%
- Bassin de Río Maízsub-area913,4 km²overlap19.63 km²5%
- Bassin de Río Indiosub-area1 268,4 km²overlap16.24 km²4%
- Bassin de Río Bartolasub-area250,1 km²overlap14.49 km²3%
- Bassin de Río San Carlossub-area279,1 km²overlap0.01 km²0%
- Bassin de Río Sarapiquísub-area16,6 km²overlap0.00 km²0%
Lakes (4, top by area)
Rivers / streams (43, ord ≥ 4)
- Río San Juanord 7len here105.46 km42%total250 km
- Caño San Juanilloord 3len here22.41 km73%total31 km
- Río San Juanord 2len here20.22 km71%total28 km
- Caño El Misteriosoord 2len here7.64 km67%total11 km
- Caño Casa Altaord 2len here6.70 km100%total7 km
- Caño El Deseadoord 3len here6.05 km40%total15 km
- Caño El Pescadoord 2len here5.22 km97%total5 km
- Río Machucaord 6len here4.62 km22%total21 km
- Río Indioord 1len here4.54 km92%total5 km
- Caño El Muertoord 2len here3.97 km100%total4 km
- Caño San Juanilloord 7len here3.83 km50%total8 km
- Caño Las Banderasord 2len here3.76 km31%total12 km
31 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Río Indioord 1len here3.73 km100%total4 km
- Río Indioord 5len here3.69 km4%total83 km
- Caño San Franciscoord 3len here2.36 km12%total20 km
- Río Bartolaord 3len here2.33 km7%total35 km
- Río Cruz del Norteord 2len here2.27 km14%total17 km
- Caño La Daníaord 2len here2.22 km16%total14 km
- Caño La Chorreraord 2len here2.18 km15%total15 km
- Quebrada La Tigraord 2len here2.07 km44%total5 km
- Río Las Maríasord 7len here2.05 km10%total21 km
- Caño de Oroord 2len here1.90 km7%total26 km
- Caño Tambor Grandeord 1len here1.83 km67%total3 km
- Caño El Pescadoord 5len here1.82 km100%total2 km
- Río Indioord 1len here1.80 km99%total2 km
- Río indioord 5len here1.41 km12%total11 km
- Río Indioord 2len here1.30 km100%total1 km
- Caño Las Palomasord 3len here1.08 km8%total14 km
- Caño Cureñitaord 6len here0.91 km10%total9 km
- Río San Juanord 1len here0.82 km49%total2 km
- Caño El Pescadoord 1len here0.74 km40%total2 km
- Caño El Pilloord 1len here0.68 km100%total1 km
- Caño El Pescadoord 3len here0.64 km7%total9 km
- Caño Cureñaord 2len here0.57 km12%total5 km
- Caño El Diabloord 1len here0.43 km23%total2 km
- Caño Casa Altaord 1len here0.20 km10%total2 km
- Caño Casa Altaord 2len here0.18 km3%total7 km
- Río Cruz del Surord 6len here0.16 km7%total2 km
- Río San Carlosord 5len here0.14 km0%total172 km
- Río Tauraord 4len here0.10 km1%total9 km
- Río Infiernitoord 4len here0.08 km0%total68 km
- Río Indioord 2len here≈ tangenttotal1 km
- Caño El Vaporord 1len here≈ tangenttotal1 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
- 10.93701, -83.75299
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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.