HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080093080
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 16 administrative regions : Aguada, Barrancabermeja, Bolívar, Chimá, Chipatá +11
Sub-basin area
2 046,1km²
Upstream area
2 046,3km²
Discharge
79,71m³/s
Mean elev.
759m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
16 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 408.0 km²20.0% of basin
- 374.5 km²18.4% of basin
- 348.5 km²17.1% of basin
- 302.1 km²14.8% of basin
- 285.1 km²14.0% of basin
- 159.7 km²7.8% of basin
- 60.6 km²3.0% of basin
- 56.7 km²2.8% of basin
8 moreFull L2 list
- Barrancabermeja29.3 km² · 1.4%
- El Carmen de Chucurí7.8 km² · 0.4%
- Chimá3.0 km² · 0.1%
- Aguada0.9 km² · 0.0%
- Bolívar0.6 km² · 0.0%
- Chipatá0.3 km² · 0.0%
- Hato0.2 km² · 0.0%
- Cimitarra0.0 km² · 0.0%
5 intersecting protected areas
Serranía de los Yariguíes
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
1085.29 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrográfica Rio Opón
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
670.52 km² overlap
Serranía de los Yariguíes
IUCN IINational Natural Park
176.84 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrografica del Rìo Carare-Minero
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
2.86 km² overlap
Ojo de Agua
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 111 distinct species · 15 393 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 : 23 espèces reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
24,3°C
Annual rain
2 785mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,42
Runoff
1 221mm/an
PET
1 612mm
AET
1 554mm
Mean slope
11,0°
Water table
338cm
Forest
23%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
62%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)