HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080092980
Bassin de Río Opón
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 2 administrative regions : Barrancabermeja, Simacota
Sub-basin area
218,7km²
Upstream area
218,7km²
Discharge
7,5m³/s
Mean elev.
106m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 202.9 km²93.2% of basin
- 14.9 km²6.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca Hidrográfica Rio Opón
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
157.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
158 distinct species · 409 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Opón : 22 espèces reliées par 28 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.4%, 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°
28,2°C
Annual rain
2 831mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
1 082mm/an
PET
1 771mm
AET
1 647mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
62cm
Forest
8%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)