HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080073150
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 2 administrative regions : Girardot, Guanarito
Sub-basin area
1 184,5km²
Upstream area
26 773km²
Discharge
374,58m³/s
Mean elev.
66m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Portuguesa1962 km²
- Bassin de Río San Carlos369 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1174.0 km²99.5% of basin
- 5.5 km²0.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
El Baúl - Corralito
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
10.61 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
276 distinct species · 1 153 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 : 26 espèces reliées par 32 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
1 425mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
525mm/an
PET
1 774mm
AET
1 106mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
9cm
Forest
28%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)