HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080031710
Bassin de Río Jequetepeque
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 8 administrative regions : Cajamarca, Chepén, Contumazá, Gran Chimú, Hualgayoc +3
Sub-basin area
4 004,1km²
Upstream area
4 004,1km²
Discharge
8,06m³/s
Mean elev.
2 227m
Administrative coverage
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1335.7 km²33.5% of basin
- San MiguelCajamarca · Peru933.6 km²23.4% of basin
- CajamarcaCajamarca · Peru791.7 km²19.9% of basin
- 664.8 km²16.7% of basin
- Pacasmayo175.4 km²4.4% of basin
- 84.0 km²2.1% of basin
- HualgayocCajamarca · Peru1.1 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sunchubamba
IUCN VIHunting Preserve
120.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 365 distinct species · 15 638 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Jequetepeque : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.7%, 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).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
14,6°C
Annual rain
609mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
161mm/an
PET
1 474mm
AET
514mm
Mean slope
17,9°
Water table
780cm
Forest
19%
Crops
17%
Urban
1%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)