HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080068110
Bassin de Río Magdalena
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 5 administrative regions : Achí, Magangué, Mompós, Pinillos, Sucre
Sub-basin area
610,1km²
Upstream area
225 687,7km²
Discharge
6 525,85m³/s
Mean elev.
13m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Magdalena1690 km²
- Bassin de Río Magdalena11 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 268.3 km²44.2% of basin
- 252.2 km²41.5% of basin
- 32.9 km²5.4% of basin
- 27.2 km²4.5% of basin
- 27.0 km²4.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca Hidrográfica Rio San Jorge
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
545.01 km² overlap
Plan de Ordenación y Manejo de la Cuenca Hidrográfica Directos Bajo Magdalena Entre El Banco y Plato
IUCN Not ApplicablePOMCA
53.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
86 distinct species · 274 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 Magdalena : 21 espèces reliées par 17 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
28,0°C
Annual rain
2 540mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,29
Runoff
359mm/an
PET
1 810mm
AET
1 445mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
19cm
Forest
33%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)