HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080058590
Bassin de Río El Limón
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 : Diego Ibarra, Girardot, Guacara, Lago Valencia, Los Guayos +4
Sub-basin area
462km²
Upstream area
462km²
Discharge
4,38m³/s
Mean elev.
594m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 155.7 km²33.8% of basin
- 108.1 km²23.5% of basin
- 92.8 km²20.2% of basin
- 84.1 km²18.3% of basin
- 11.1 km²2.4% of basin
- 3.8 km²0.8% of basin
- 2.3 km²0.5% of basin
- 2.0 km²0.4% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- Girardot0.2 km² · 0.0%
4 intersecting protected areas
Critical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
458.25 km² overlap
Henri Pittier
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
138.05 km² overlap
San Esteban
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
0.35 km² overlap
Riberas del Lago de Valencia
IUCN VIEnvironmental Protection and Recovery Area (APRA)
0.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 222 distinct species · 64 550 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 15 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 El Limón : 11 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 11.4%, 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°
23,6°C
Annual rain
1 003mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
282mm/an
PET
1 699mm
AET
845mm
Mean slope
7,9°
Water table
390cm
Forest
21%
Crops
2%
Urban
22%
Protected
56%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)