HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080091120
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 4 administrative regions : Bojayá, El Carmen del Darién, Murindó, Vigía del Fuerte
Sub-basin area
572,3km²
Upstream area
19 251,4km²
Discharge
2 490,95m³/s
Mean elev.
13m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Napipí904 km²
- Bassin de Río Opogadó405 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 434.8 km²76.3% of basin
- 70.3 km²12.3% of basin
- 48.7 km²8.6% of basin
- 16.0 km²2.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
251 distinct species · 1 366 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 : 29 espèces reliées par 40 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
4 130mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,59
Runoff
3 152mm/an
PET
1 681mm
AET
1 662mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
11cm
Forest
73%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)