HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080032400
Bassin de Río Palenque
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 4 administrative regions : El Guabo, Machala, Pasaje, Santa Rosa
Sub-basin area
196,7km²
Upstream area
4 702,8km²
Discharge
42,39m³/s
Mean elev.
13m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Casacay838 km²
- Bassin de Río Chilola331 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 124.4 km²63.5% of basin
- 36.3 km²18.5% of basin
- 30.0 km²15.3% of basin
- 5.0 km²2.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
704 distinct species · 6 747 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Palenque : 30 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 59 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.5%, 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
584mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
315mm/an
PET
1 461mm
AET
495mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
17cm
Forest
21%
Crops
20%
Urban
11%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)