HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080084640
Bassin de Zulia
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 5 administrative regions : Arboledas, Cucutilla, Cáchira, Salazar de las Palmas, Suratá
Sub-basin area
376km²
Upstream area
376km²
Discharge
12,57m³/s
Mean elev.
2 390m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 336.4 km²89.8% of basin
- 32.9 km²8.8% of basin
- 2.3 km²0.6% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.4% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.4% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Santurbán Arboledas
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
207.26 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrográfica Rio Zulia
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
163.50 km² overlap
Regional Natural Parks
1.54 km² overlap
Sisavita
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
0.52 km² overlap
Páramo de Santurbán
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
0.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
459 distinct species · 8 115 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 17 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 Zulia : 11 espèces reliées par 22 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 16.2%, 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°
13,8°C
Annual rain
1 273mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
1 009mm/an
PET
1 177mm
AET
966mm
Mean slope
26,2°
Water table
895cm
Forest
70%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
48%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)