HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080098210
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 : Chimá, Confines, El Carmen de Chucurí, Galán, Guadalupe +7
Sub-basin area
580,5km²
Upstream area
7 287,6km²
Discharge
185,92m³/s
Mean elev.
1 616m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Suárez739 km²
- Bassin de Río Oibita602 km²
12 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 175.2 km²30.3% of basin
- 135.7 km²23.5% of basin
- 78.8 km²13.6% of basin
- 59.0 km²10.2% of basin
- 56.2 km²9.7% of basin
- 43.0 km²7.4% of basin
- 16.4 km²2.8% of basin
- 7.1 km²1.2% of basin
4 moreFull L2 list
- Oiba5.8 km² · 1.0%
- Galán0.6 km² · 0.1%
- El Carmen de Chucurí0.3 km² · 0.1%
- Guadalupe0.0 km² · 0.0%
2 intersecting protected areas
Serranía de los Yariguíes
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
265.49 km² overlap
Serranía de los Yariguíes
IUCN IINational Natural Park
99.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
810 distinct species · 66 083 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 18 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 : 14 espèces reliées par 19 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.4%, 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°
19,5°C
Annual rain
2 308mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,33
Runoff
1 005mm/an
PET
1 509mm
AET
1 408mm
Mean slope
16,0°
Water table
501cm
Forest
26%
Crops
7%
Urban
1%
Protected
63%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)