HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080057430
Bassin de Río Seco
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 across 2 countries : Jesús Enrique Lossada, La Jagua del Pilar, La Paz, Urumita, Valledupar +1
Sub-basin area
712,1km²
Upstream area
2 665,6km²
Discharge
36,74m³/s
Mean elev.
556m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Badillo1074 km²
- Bassin de Río Cesar880 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 378.0 km²53.3% of basin
- 169.7 km²23.9% of basin
- 125.5 km²17.7% of basin
- Villanueva19.3 km²2.7% of basin
- 15.8 km²2.2% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.1% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
de Perijá
IUCN VISoil Conservation Districts
79.59 km² overlap
Regional Natural Parks
33.79 km² overlap
Los Besotes
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
30.41 km² overlap
Paraver La Esperanza
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
3.80 km² overlap
Civil Society Nature Reserve
3.49 km² overlap
Protective Zone (ZP)
0.94 km² overlap
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
IUCN IINational Natural Park
0.31 km² overlap
Serranía del Perijá
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
0.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
882 distinct species · 22 175 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Seco : 20 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 48 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 369mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,21
Runoff
465mm/an
PET
1 740mm
AET
1 036mm
Mean slope
9,6°
Water table
355cm
Forest
15%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)