HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080070550
Bassin de Río Catatumbo
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 : El Tarra, Tibú
Sub-basin area
336,5km²
Upstream area
4 434,1km²
Discharge
91,06m³/s
Mean elev.
370m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Tarra1759 km²
- Bassin de Río Catatumbo336 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 256.5 km²76.6% of basin
- 78.6 km²23.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca Hidrográfica Rio Algodonal
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
1.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
64 distinct species · 71 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 6 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 Catatumbo : 6 espèces reliées par 4 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 26.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,1°C
Annual rain
3 130mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
878mm/an
PET
1 740mm
AET
1 661mm
Mean slope
9,3°
Water table
382cm
Forest
6%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)