HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080055230
Bassin de Río El Limón
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 across 2 countries : Barrancas, Fonseca, Guajira, Hatonuevo, Jesús Enrique Lossada +3
Sub-basin area
1 620,9km²
Upstream area
2 067,6km²
Discharge
4,2m³/s
Mean elev.
553m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080056730275 km²
- Bassin · #6080056670172 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1040.5 km²64.4% of basin
- 365.5 km²22.6% of basin
- 183.2 km²11.3% of basin
- 17.7 km²1.1% of basin
- 3.9 km²0.2% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.1% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.1% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Protective Zone (ZP)
1313.70 km² overlap
Lago de Maracaibo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
962.94 km² overlap
Montes de Oca
IUCN VIRegional Protective Forest Reserves
3.48 km² overlap
Serranía de Perijá
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
2.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
754 distinct species · 2 159 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 El Limón : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 45 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
1 251mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
124mm/an
PET
1 604mm
AET
1 015mm
Mean slope
11,1°
Water table
484cm
Forest
18%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
82%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)