HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080000710
Bassin de Arroyo León
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 6 administrative regions : Baranoa, Barranquilla, Galapa, Malambo, Puerto Colombia +1
Sub-basin area
254,5km²
Upstream area
254,6km²
Discharge
1,36m³/s
Mean elev.
80m
Administrative coverage
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 93.0 km²36.7% of basin
- 86.7 km²34.2% of basin
- 40.8 km²16.1% of basin
- 16.8 km²6.6% of basin
- 16.0 km²6.3% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sitio Ramsar Delta Estuarino del Rio Magdalena, Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta (Sitio Ramsar SDERM-CGSM)
IUCN Not ApplicableWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 031 distinct species · 46 542 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Arroyo León : 22 espèces reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.1%, 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°
27,7°C
Annual rain
894mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
168mm/an
PET
1 579mm
AET
756mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
227cm
Forest
0%
Crops
7%
Urban
38%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)