HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080068300
Bassin de Río Tortí
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 2 administrative regions : Chepo, Lago Bayano
Sub-basin area
245,1km²
Upstream area
1 605,8km²
Discharge
46,51m³/s
Mean elev.
207m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Higueronal894 km²
- Bassin · #6080068470467 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ChepoPanamá · Panama233.6 km²95.7% of basin
- Lago BayanoPanamá · Panama10.5 km²4.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 183 distinct species · 189 670 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 17 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 Tortí : 15 espèces reliées par 14 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.3%, 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
1 919mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,24
Runoff
1 109mm/an
PET
1 439mm
AET
1 158mm
Mean slope
6,3°
Water table
216cm
Forest
52%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)