HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080068100
Bassin de Caño Yayal
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 4 administrative regions : Magangué, Mompós, San Benito Abad, Sucre
Sub-basin area
227,1km²
Upstream area
17 105,4km²
Discharge
453,4m³/s
Mean elev.
12m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río San Jorge1114 km²
- Bassin de Caño Cucharal154 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 146.2 km²64.6% of basin
- 73.5 km²32.5% of basin
- 6.5 km²2.9% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca Hidrográfica Rio San Jorge
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
226.12 km² overlap
Plan de Ordenación y Manejo de la Cuenca Hidrográfica Directos Bajo Magdalena Entre El Banco y Plato
IUCN Not ApplicablePOMCA
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
94 distinct species · 373 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 Caño Yayal : 19 espèces reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.2%, 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°
27,9°C
Annual rain
2 187mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,18
Runoff
361mm/an
PET
1 788mm
AET
1 376mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
20cm
Forest
25%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)