HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080097210
Bassin de Río Carauta
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 4 administrative regions : Abriaquí, Dabeiba, Frontino, Urrao
Sub-basin area
849,5km²
Upstream area
849,9km²
Discharge
57,16m³/s
Mean elev.
1 365m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 703.7 km²83.2% of basin
- 135.1 km²16.0% of basin
- 4.4 km²0.5% of basin
- 2.6 km²0.3% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Las Orquídeas
IUCN IINational Natural Park
275.13 km² overlap
Carauta
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
275.06 km² overlap
De Urrao
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
63.94 km² overlap
Reserva Natural Musinga
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.21 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 455 distinct species · 24 775 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Carauta : 23 espèces reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.8%, 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°
21,0°C
Annual rain
2 888mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,47
Runoff
2 162mm/an
PET
1 525mm
AET
1 486mm
Mean slope
17,4°
Water table
467cm
Forest
43%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
77%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)