HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080055590
Bassin de Río Marocaso
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 5 administrative regions : Dibulla, Distracción, Fonseca, Riohacha, San Juan del Cesar
Sub-basin area
595,8km²
Upstream area
595,8km²
Discharge
5,86m³/s
Mean elev.
987m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 194.3 km²32.7% of basin
- 188.3 km²31.7% of basin
- 165.2 km²27.8% of basin
- 45.6 km²7.7% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
IUCN IINational Natural Park
165.56 km² overlap
Caracolí Sabanas de Manuela
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
26.10 km² overlap
Integrated Management Regional Districts
1.61 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
445 distinct species · 1 358 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Marocaso : 21 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.1%, 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°
21,8°C
Annual rain
1 503mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
383mm/an
PET
1 561mm
AET
1 055mm
Mean slope
15,1°
Water table
619cm
Forest
15%
Crops
0%
Urban
2%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)