HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080056440
Bassin de Arroyo de Caraballo
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 : Aracataca, El Retén, Pivijay
Sub-basin area
658,2km²
Upstream area
2 862,7km²
Discharge
98,82m³/s
Mean elev.
49m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Fundación1423 km²
- Bassin de Río Aracataca782 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 506.3 km²77.2% of basin
- 147.2 km²22.4% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sitio Ramsar Delta Estuarino del Rio Magdalena, Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta (Sitio Ramsar SDERM-CGSM)
IUCN Not ApplicableWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
284.70 km² overlap
Fauna and Flora Sanctuary
3.58 km² overlap
Specially Protected Area (Cartagena Convention)
3.58 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
475 distinct species · 6 839 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Arroyo de Caraballo : 31 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
27,9°C
Annual rain
1 328mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
527mm/an
PET
1 879mm
AET
1 115mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
38cm
Forest
0%
Crops
7%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)