HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080069460
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 13 administrative regions : Convención, El Banco, El Carmen, El Peñon, González +8
Sub-basin area
2 046,5km²
Upstream area
139 272,1km²
Discharge
3 873,63m³/s
Mean elev.
422m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Magdalena2296 km²
- Bassin de Río Magdalena12 km²
13 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 438.6 km²21.5% of basin
- 400.1 km²19.6% of basin
- 336.5 km²16.5% of basin
- 322.3 km²15.8% of basin
- 181.7 km²8.9% of basin
- 175.6 km²8.6% of basin
- 136.9 km²6.7% of basin
- 23.1 km²1.1% of basin
5 moreFull L2 list
- El Banco20.2 km² · 1.0%
- Convención1.2 km² · 0.1%
- González1.1 km² · 0.1%
- Río Viejo0.6 km² · 0.0%
- San Martín de Loba0.1 km² · 0.0%
7 intersecting protected areas
Plan de Ordenación y Manejo de la Cuenca Hidrográfica Directos Bajo Magdalena Entre El Banco y Plato
IUCN Not ApplicablePOMCA
314.80 km² overlap
Complejo Cenagoso de Zapatosa
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
34.39 km² overlap
Integrated Management Regional Districts
17.54 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrográfica Rio Algodonal
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
13.01 km² overlap
Plan de Ordenacion y Manejo de la Cuenca Hidrografica Rio Bajo Cesar-Cienaga de Zapatosa
IUCN Not ApplicablePOMCA
4.39 km² overlap
Cuenca Alta del Caño Alonso
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
4.26 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrográfica Quebrada Buturama – Quebrada Guaduas Y Otros Directos Al Magdalena Medio
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
0.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
598 distinct species · 2 786 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 : 22 espèces reliées par 28 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
1 715mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
461mm/an
PET
1 711mm
AET
1 285mm
Mean slope
9,1°
Water table
320cm
Forest
20%
Crops
4%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)