HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080000960
Bassin de Arroyo Los Achotes
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 : Dibulla, Santa Marta
Sub-basin area
42,9km²
Upstream area
42,9km²
Discharge
0,98m³/s
Mean elev.
173m
Administrative coverage
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 36.3 km²85.1% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
IUCN IINational Natural Park
37.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
501 distinct species · 6 051 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Los Achotes : 23 espèces reliées par 37 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
1 987mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
721mm/an
PET
1 769mm
AET
1 260mm
Mean slope
12,1°
Water table
368cm
Forest
39%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
87%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)