Protective Forest · pan
Alto Darién
- Area
- 2 159 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 1972
Overview
- Designation
- Protective Forest
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 1972
- Managing authority
- Ministerio de Ambiente
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
3 197 distinct species · 181 858 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 14 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 Alto Darién : 9 espèces reliées par 14 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 15.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology16 basins · 0 lakes · 18 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
567,6km
Basins crossed
16
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
4 328km²
Discharge in basins
564,7m³/s
Mean precip.
1 981mm/an
Mean T°
25,3°C
Moisture idx
0,26
Mean runoff
1 795mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
243m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Río Tupisasub-area779,1 km²overlap533.29 km²25%
- Bassin de Río Tuquesasub-area548,4 km²overlap512.04 km²24%
- Bassin de Rio Ucurcantisub-area310,6 km²overlap309.20 km²14%
- Bassin de Río Membrillosub-area427,1 km²overlap205.07 km²9%
- Bassin de Río Cupésub-area238,6 km²overlap143.98 km²7%
- Bassin de Río Chicosub-area643,9 km²overlap127.53 km²6%
- Bassin de Río Metetísub-area307,3 km²overlap79.56 km²4%
- Bassin de Río Tuirasub-area360,8 km²overlap52.53 km²2%
- Bassin de Río Capetísub-area176,6 km²overlap46.41 km²2%
7 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Río Pacasub-area223,5 km²overlap46.29 km²2%
- Bassin de Río Yapésub-area203,3 km²overlap43.36 km²2%
- Bassin de Río Chucunaquesub-area174,5 km²overlap21.50 km²1%
- Bassin de Río Topalisasub-area377,4 km²overlap11.76 km²1%
- Bassin de Río Tuirasub-area15,7 km²overlap11.04 km²1%
- Bassin de Río Chiatísub-area382,3 km²overlap9.33 km²0%
- Bassin de Río Playón Grandesub-area2 410,7 km²overlap5.88 km²0%
Rivers / streams (18, ord ≥ 4)
- Río Tuquesaord 4len here70.09 km100%total70 km
- Rio Ucurcantiord 3len here67.84 km100%total68 km
- Río Tupisaord 4len here57.85 km55%total105 km
- Río Membrilloord 4len here56.83 km58%total98 km
- Río Chucunaqueord 5len here52.48 km21%total248 km
- Rio Marragantiord 4len here44.77 km100%total45 km
- Río Cupéord 3len here38.63 km86%total45 km
- Río Chicoord 4len here36.28 km40%total90 km
- Río Tuiraord 6len here30.32 km9%total344 km
- Cañas Blancasord 3len here21.82 km92%total24 km
- Río Yapéord 5len here21.26 km68%total31 km
- Río Capetíord 3len here19.69 km49%total40 km
6 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- 8.31383, -77.63274
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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.