HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080090450
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 3 administrative regions : Briceño, Ituango, Toledo
Sub-basin area
43,2km²
Upstream area
36 096km²
Discharge
1 082,28m³/s
Mean elev.
1 052m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cauca2014 km²
- Bassin de Río San Andrés495 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 25.8 km²59.9% of basin
- 17.2 km²40.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 005 distinct species · 478 707 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 : 30 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.5%, 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
2 745mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,41
Runoff
2 010mm/an
PET
1 585mm
AET
1 442mm
Mean slope
26,6°
Water table
883cm
Forest
70%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)