HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080084310
Bassin de Río Atrato
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 : Belén de Bajirá, Riosucio
Sub-basin area
296,5km²
Upstream area
33 433,6km²
Discharge
3 621,99m³/s
Mean elev.
4m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Caño Larga Boba643 km²
- Bassin de Río Atrato81 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 283.6 km²96.1% of basin
- 11.6 km²3.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Los Katíos National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
16.95 km² overlap
Los Katíos
IUCN IINational Natural Park
16.75 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
305 distinct species · 974 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Atrato : 18 espèces reliées par 21 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.6%, 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°
26,8°C
Annual rain
2 775mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
2 141mm/an
PET
1 574mm
AET
1 407mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
1cm
Forest
84%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)