HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080091420
Bassin de Río Margua
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 across 2 countries : Chitagá, Páez, Toledo
Sub-basin area
695,6km²
Upstream area
3 216,2km²
Discharge
140,98m³/s
Mean elev.
1 565m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Margua914 km²
- Bassin de Río Margua95 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Toledo686.1 km²99.0% of basin
- 4.5 km²0.7% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Tamá
IUCN IINational Natural Park
205.81 km² overlap
National Hydraulic Reserve (RNH)
11.52 km² overlap
National Park (PN)
11.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
897 distinct species · 4 211 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 Margua : 14 espèces reliées par 22 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.5%, 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°
18,5°C
Annual rain
2 767mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,42
Runoff
1 758mm/an
PET
1 401mm
AET
1 309mm
Mean slope
21,0°
Water table
692cm
Forest
75%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
31%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)