HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080072910
Bassin de Río Algodonal
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 8 administrative regions : Convención, El Carmen, González, Hacarí, La Playa de Belén +3
Sub-basin area
654,3km²
Upstream area
1 502,5km²
Discharge
26,68m³/s
Mean elev.
1 223m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Algodonal603 km²
- Bassin de Río Chiquito245 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 205.2 km²31.5% of basin
- 180.0 km²27.6% of basin
- 106.8 km²16.4% of basin
- 67.7 km²10.4% of basin
- 53.3 km²8.2% of basin
- 36.9 km²5.7% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca Hidrográfica Rio Algodonal
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
639.20 km² overlap
Los Estoraques
IUCN IIIUnique Natural Area
5.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
481 distinct species · 3 744 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Algodonal : 24 espèces reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
20,9°C
Annual rain
1 364mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,12
Runoff
627mm/an
PET
1 535mm
AET
1 111mm
Mean slope
18,6°
Water table
611cm
Forest
14%
Crops
5%
Urban
2%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)