HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080099640
Bassin de Río Encarnación
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, Caicedo, Frontino, Urrao
Sub-basin area
218,6km²
Upstream area
218,6km²
Discharge
13,54m³/s
Mean elev.
2 449m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 212.2 km²97.5% of basin
- 5.2 km²2.4% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.1% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
De Urrao
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
140.34 km² overlap
Civil Society Nature Reserve
3.07 km² overlap
De Las Aves Colibrí Del Sol
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
2.92 km² overlap
Corredor de las Alegrias
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
0.41 km² overlap
Las Orquídeas
IUCN IINational Natural Park
0.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 339 distinct species · 8 235 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Encarnación : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.2%, 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°
15,2°C
Annual rain
2 571mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,51
Runoff
1 960mm/an
PET
1 262mm
AET
1 249mm
Mean slope
20,4°
Water table
518cm
Forest
62%
Crops
1%
Urban
2%
Protected
63%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)