HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080058900
Bassin de Río Cesar
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 11 administrative regions across 2 countries : Agustín Codazzi, Jesús Enrique Lossada, La Jagua del Pilar, La Paz, Machiques de Perijá +6
Sub-basin area
1 847,2km²
Upstream area
5 219,2km²
Discharge
83,29m³/s
Mean elev.
669m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Seco712 km²
- Bassin de Río Donachui707 km²
11 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 841.3 km²45.7% of basin
- 322.7 km²17.5% of basin
- 288.5 km²15.7% of basin
- 165.1 km²9.0% of basin
- 134.7 km²7.3% of basin
- 56.2 km²3.1% of basin
- 27.9 km²1.5% of basin
- 1.9 km²0.1% of basin
3 moreFull L2 list
- Jesús Enrique Lossada1.2 km² · 0.1%
- Agustín Codazzi0.2 km² · 0.0%
- Rosario de Perijá0.1 km² · 0.0%
10 intersecting protected areas
Serranía del Perijá
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
72.38 km² overlap
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
IUCN IINational Natural Park
57.14 km² overlap
de Perijá
IUCN VISoil Conservation Districts
4.46 km² overlap
Los Ceibotes
IUCN VIRegional Protective Forest Reserves
3.04 km² overlap
Perijá
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
2.52 km² overlap
Regional Natural Parks
2.26 km² overlap
Los Tananeos
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
1.38 km² overlap
Protective Zone (ZP)
1.26 km² overlap
Chamicero de Perijá
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.25 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
El Paraíso de Azucar Buena
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 156 distinct species · 194 475 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Cesar : 18 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
1 550mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
533mm/an
PET
1 726mm
AET
1 137mm
Mean slope
10,3°
Water table
391cm
Forest
13%
Crops
3%
Urban
3%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)