HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080033830
Bassin de Río San Juan de Micay
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 3 administrative regions : Buenaventura, López de Micay, Timbiquí
Sub-basin area
881,5km²
Upstream area
4 227,2km²
Discharge
339,63m³/s
Mean elev.
59m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Chuare658 km²
- Bassin de Río San Juan de Micay449 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 853.4 km²97.2% of basin
- 16.2 km²1.8% of basin
- 8.0 km²0.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Regional Protective Forest Reserves
16.52 km² overlap
Isla Ají
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
6.92 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
124 distinct species · 203 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 San Juan de Micay : 18 espèces reliées par 17 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
8 446mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,81
Runoff
3 943mm/an
PET
1 591mm
AET
1 591mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
104cm
Forest
85%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
15%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)