HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080057420
Bassin de Río Donachui
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, Pueblo Bello, Valledupar
Sub-basin area
706,8km²
Upstream area
706,8km²
Discharge
17,48m³/s
Mean elev.
1 977m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 570.2 km²81.0% of basin
- 122.1 km²17.3% of basin
- 11.7 km²1.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
IUCN IINational Natural Park
627.59 km² overlap
Los Besotes
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
0.67 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
803 distinct species · 7 254 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 Donachui : 23 espèces reliées par 46 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
15,6°C
Annual rain
2 192mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,36
Runoff
791mm/an
PET
1 317mm
AET
1 124mm
Mean slope
24,8°
Water table
873cm
Forest
23%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
71%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)