HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080070270
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 11 administrative regions : Altos del Rosario, Barranco de Loba, El Banco, El Peñon, Hatillo de Loba +6
Sub-basin area
1 690,4km²
Upstream area
163 175,3km²
Discharge
4 184,31m³/s
Mean elev.
51m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Magdalena2047 km²
- Bassin de Río Magdalena104 km²
11 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 404.2 km²24.0% of basin
- 385.6 km²22.9% of basin
- 332.3 km²19.7% of basin
- 162.6 km²9.7% of basin
- 102.0 km²6.1% of basin
- 99.9 km²5.9% of basin
- 85.9 km²5.1% of basin
- 75.0 km²4.5% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Plan de Ordenación y Manejo de la Cuenca Hidrográfica Directos Bajo Magdalena Entre El Banco y Plato
IUCN Not ApplicablePOMCA
1339.42 km² overlap
Integrated Management Regional Districts
10.51 km² overlap
Complejo Cenagoso de Zapatosa
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
8.23 km² overlap
Plan de Ordenacion y Manejo de la Cuenca Hidrografica Rio Bajo Cesar-Cienaga de Zapatosa
IUCN Not ApplicablePOMCA
1.29 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
657 distinct species · 14 628 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 : 38 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 48 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 4.8%, 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°
28,1°C
Annual rain
2 307mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,21
Runoff
368mm/an
PET
1 808mm
AET
1 442mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
96cm
Forest
25%
Crops
5%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)