HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080691570
Bassin de Río Caramel o del Alcaide
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 2 administrative regions : Almería, Murcia
Sub-basin area
873,1km²
Upstream area
873,2km²
Discharge
0,82m³/s
Mean elev.
904m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 527.0 km²60.3% of basin
- 346.6 km²39.7% of basin
13 intersecting protected areas
Sierras del Gigante-Pericay, Lomas del Buitre-Río Luchena y Sierra de la Torrecilla
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
152.44 km² overlap
Sierra del Oso
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
121.73 km² overlap
Sierra del Oso
IUCN IVNatura 2000
120.58 km² overlap
Sierra Maria - Los Vélez
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
75.25 km² overlap
Sierra Maria - Los Vélez
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
75.25 km² overlap
Sierra Maria - Los Velez
IUCN IVNatura 2000
75.25 km² overlap
Sierra María-Los Velez
IUCN VNatural Park
75.04 km² overlap
Casa Alta-Salinas
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
36.78 km² overlap
Lomas del Buitre y Río Luchena
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
32.54 km² overlap
4 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Sierra del Gigante
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
29.58 km² overlap
Sierras de Burete, Lavia y Cambrón
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
16.20 km² overlap
Sierra de Lavia
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.31 km² overlap
Cueva de San Ambrosio
IUCN IIINatural Monument
0.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 369 distinct species · 49 220 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Caramel o del Alcaide : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 98 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 13.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
13,8°C
Annual rain
433mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
35mm/an
PET
1 152mm
AET
371mm
Mean slope
7,0°
Water table
609cm
Forest
5%
Crops
49%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)