HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080085290
Bassin de Río Cauca
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 7 administrative regions : Briceño, Cáceres, Ituango, San Andrés de Cuerquia, Tarazá +2
Sub-basin area
1 780,9km²
Upstream area
38 435km²
Discharge
1 279,76m³/s
Mean elev.
1 042m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Ituango558 km²
- Bassin de Río Cauca43 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 551.4 km²31.1% of basin
- 455.8 km²25.7% of basin
- 325.5 km²18.4% of basin
- 317.1 km²17.9% of basin
- 112.1 km²6.3% of basin
- 11.4 km²0.6% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Alto de Ventanas
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
92.80 km² overlap
Bajo Cauca Nechí
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 705 distinct species · 75 801 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 Cauca : 17 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 28 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 12.1%, 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
3 717mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,57
Runoff
2 002mm/an
PET
1 569mm
AET
1 515mm
Mean slope
18,0°
Water table
519cm
Forest
44%
Crops
5%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)