HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080032860
Bassin de Río Salango
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 : Jipijapa, Puerto López
Sub-basin area
305,8km²
Upstream area
306km²
Discharge
1,93m³/s
Mean elev.
351m
Administrative coverage
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 223.2 km²73.3% of basin
- 81.3 km²26.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Machalilla
IUCN IINational Park
130.24 km² overlap
Zona Marina Parque Nacional Machalilla
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 307 distinct species · 28 608 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 Salango : 16 espèces reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
23,3°C
Annual rain
577mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
276mm/an
PET
1 476mm
AET
489mm
Mean slope
10,4°
Water table
505cm
Forest
0%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
43%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)