HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080056660
Bassin de Río Aracataca
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 6 administrative regions : Aracataca, El Retén, Fundación, Pueblo Bello, Santa Marta +1
Sub-basin area
781,7km²
Upstream area
781,7km²
Discharge
40,78m³/s
Mean elev.
2 709m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 756.4 km²97.2% of basin
- 20.8 km²2.7% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
IUCN IINational Natural Park
638.29 km² overlap
Sitio Ramsar Delta Estuarino del Rio Magdalena, Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta (Sitio Ramsar SDERM-CGSM)
IUCN Not ApplicableWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
53.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
501 distinct species · 6 640 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Aracataca : 20 espèces reliées par 18 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.5%, 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°
11,4°C
Annual rain
2 211mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,47
Runoff
1 029mm/an
PET
1 135mm
AET
999mm
Mean slope
20,2°
Water table
705cm
Forest
24%
Crops
5%
Urban
1%
Protected
79%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)