HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080071160
Bassin de Río Portuguesa
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 : Esteller, Girardot, Papelón, Santa Rosalía, Turén
Sub-basin area
1 962,1km²
Upstream area
11 523,8km²
Discharge
197,08m³/s
Mean elev.
85m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Caño Igüés1586 km²
- Bassin de Río Portuguesa1150 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 812.4 km²41.6% of basin
- 748.9 km²38.3% of basin
- 347.8 km²17.8% of basin
- 30.7 km²1.6% of basin
- 14.2 km²0.7% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Turén
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
560.21 km² overlap
El Amparo
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
31.27 km² overlap
El Baúl - Corralito
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
0.46 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
199 distinct species · 476 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Portuguesa : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 37 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 4.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 503mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
435mm/an
PET
1 803mm
AET
1 168mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
7cm
Forest
9%
Crops
34%
Urban
1%
Protected
36%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)