HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080072130
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 3 administrative regions : El Tarra, San Calixto, Teorama
Sub-basin area
335,7km²
Upstream area
2 338,8km²
Discharge
43,97m³/s
Mean elev.
749m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Algodonal654 km²
- Bassin de Quebrada Trinidad501 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 148.5 km²44.4% of basin
- 125.4 km²37.5% of basin
- 60.4 km²18.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca Hidrográfica Rio Algodonal
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
320.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
79 distinct species · 94 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
23,6°C
Annual rain
2 192mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,22
Runoff
724mm/an
PET
1 641mm
AET
1 472mm
Mean slope
20,7°
Water table
740cm
Forest
8%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)