HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080091020
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 21 administrative regions : Bello, Belmira, Briceño, Buriticá, Cañasgordas +16
Sub-basin area
2 013,9km²
Upstream area
35 558,2km²
Discharge
1 050,38m³/s
Mean elev.
1 587m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Quebrada Pená406 km²
- Bassin de Quebrada La Clara374 km²
21 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 349.4 km²17.4% of basin
- 331.6 km²16.5% of basin
- 264.6 km²13.2% of basin
- 219.8 km²11.0% of basin
- 174.0 km²8.7% of basin
- 151.6 km²7.6% of basin
- 148.7 km²7.4% of basin
- 87.4 km²4.4% of basin
13 moreFull L2 list
- Santafé de Antioquia78.7 km² · 3.9%
- Toledo70.6 km² · 3.5%
- San Pedro de los Milagros54.2 km² · 2.7%
- San Andrés de Cuerquia52.2 km² · 2.6%
- Belmira14.7 km² · 0.7%
- San José de la Montaña3.3 km² · 0.2%
- Bello3.1 km² · 0.2%
- Giraldo0.6 km² · 0.0%
- Cañasgordas0.4 km² · 0.0%
- Medellín0.1 km² · 0.0%
- Dabeiba0.0 km² · 0.0%
- Briceño0.0 km² · 0.0%
- Uramita0.0 km² · 0.0%
7 intersecting protected areas
Integrated Management Regional Districts
399.11 km² overlap
Peque
IUCN VISoil Conservation Districts
204.19 km² overlap
Integrated Management Regional Districts
156.89 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrográfica del Río Aurrá
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
129.88 km² overlap
Paramillo
IUCN IINational Natural Park
7.89 km² overlap
Integrated Management Regional Districts
5.26 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrográfica Río Grande y Chico
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
0.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 862 distinct species · 947 361 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 : 29 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 37 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 5.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
20,1°C
Annual rain
2 047mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,22
Runoff
1 599mm/an
PET
1 509mm
AET
1 311mm
Mean slope
24,1°
Water table
708cm
Forest
30%
Crops
6%
Urban
1%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)