HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080056920
Bassin de Río Magdalena
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 9 administrative regions : Campo de la Cruz, Candelaria, Cerro de San Antonio, El Piñón, Manatí +4
Sub-basin area
603,9km²
Upstream area
259 088,7km²
Discharge
7 270,42m³/s
Mean elev.
29m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Caño Ciego251 km²
- Bassin de Río Magdalena7 km²
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 133.5 km²22.2% of basin
- 125.9 km²20.9% of basin
- 99.3 km²16.5% of basin
- 82.8 km²13.8% of basin
- 57.8 km²9.6% of basin
- 50.9 km²8.5% of basin
- 28.1 km²4.7% of basin
- 12.4 km²2.1% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- Manatí11.0 km² · 1.8%
1 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)
159.83 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
326 distinct species · 5 650 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 Magdalena : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 43 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.7%, 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°
28,3°C
Annual rain
1 093mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
209mm/an
PET
1 863mm
AET
924mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
78cm
Forest
5%
Crops
6%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)