HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080077900
Bassin de Caño de Carate
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 : Abrego, Aguachica, Ocaña, Puerto Wilches, Rionegro +3
Sub-basin area
1 416km²
Upstream area
8 078,7km²
Discharge
185,32m³/s
Mean elev.
265m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río de Oro1080 km²
- Bassin de Río San ALBERTO1070 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 693.8 km²49.2% of basin
- 337.2 km²23.9% of basin
- 187.9 km²13.3% of basin
- 89.6 km²6.4% of basin
- 85.0 km²6.0% of basin
- 9.6 km²0.7% of basin
- 4.3 km²0.3% of basin
- 2.7 km²0.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca Hidrográfica Quebrada Buturama – Quebrada Guaduas Y Otros Directos Al Magdalena Medio
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
19.23 km² overlap
Río Tejo
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
3.90 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrográfica Rio Algodonal
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
1.84 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
468 distinct species · 3 596 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Caño de Carate : 28 espèces reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.8%, 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°
27,2°C
Annual rain
2 096mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
600mm/an
PET
1 759mm
AET
1 450mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
160cm
Forest
15%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)