HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080095310
Bassin de Río Suárez
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 12 administrative regions : Barichara, Cabrera, Curití, El Carmen de Chucurí, Galán +7
Sub-basin area
590km²
Upstream area
10 284km²
Discharge
269,18m³/s
Mean elev.
1 346m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Ture2407 km²
- Bassin de Río Suárez581 km²
12 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 199.5 km²34.0% of basin
- 124.2 km²21.1% of basin
- 91.4 km²15.6% of basin
- 67.9 km²11.6% of basin
- 52.2 km²8.9% of basin
- 33.7 km²5.7% of basin
- 11.6 km²2.0% of basin
- 4.8 km²0.8% of basin
4 moreFull L2 list
- El Carmen de Chucurí1.0 km² · 0.2%
- Curití0.9 km² · 0.1%
- San Vicente de Chucurí0.2 km² · 0.0%
- Socorro0.1 km² · 0.0%
6 intersecting protected areas
Serranía de los Yariguíes
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
332.46 km² overlap
Serranía de los Yariguíes
IUCN IINational Natural Park
7.51 km² overlap
Montechico
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.24 km² overlap
Ernesto Jiménez Lozada
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Bioparque Móncora
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Bioparque Moncora 3
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 403 distinct species · 17 435 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 Suárez : 20 espèces reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.9%, 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°
21,2°C
Annual rain
1 623mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
878mm/an
PET
1 511mm
AET
1 210mm
Mean slope
15,6°
Water table
512cm
Forest
5%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
58%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)