HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080032490
Bassin de Río Gala
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 7 administrative regions : Balao, Camilo Ponce Enriquez, Cuenca, El Guabo, Guayaquil +2
Sub-basin area
647,5km²
Upstream area
647,5km²
Discharge
7,07m³/s
Mean elev.
1 612m
Administrative coverage
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 245.2 km²38.0% of basin
- 154.2 km²23.9% of basin
- 150.3 km²23.3% of basin
- 72.3 km²11.2% of basin
- 21.9 km²3.4% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
264 distinct species · 1 294 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Gala : 29 espèces dont 5 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 62 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.2%, 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°
18,3°C
Annual rain
887mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
402mm/an
PET
1 383mm
AET
739mm
Mean slope
17,7°
Water table
588cm
Forest
14%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)