HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080094190
Bassin de Río Herradura
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 8 administrative regions : Abriaquí, Caicedo, Cañasgordas, Frontino, Giraldo +3
Sub-basin area
429,6km²
Upstream area
429,6km²
Discharge
23,16m³/s
Mean elev.
2 120m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 280.2 km²65.5% of basin
- 127.4 km²29.8% of basin
- 15.2 km²3.6% of basin
- 3.4 km²0.8% of basin
- 1.2 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Alto del Insor
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
43.13 km² overlap
Las Orquídeas
IUCN IINational Natural Park
11.08 km² overlap
Corredor de las Alegrias
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
1.67 km² overlap
De Urrao
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
0.45 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
825 distinct species · 3 647 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Herradura : 16 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
17,2°C
Annual rain
2 315mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,40
Runoff
1 735mm/an
PET
1 360mm
AET
1 304mm
Mean slope
18,8°
Water table
455cm
Forest
39%
Crops
4%
Urban
1%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)