HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080100210
Bassin de Río Nichare
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 1 administrative regions : Cedeño
Sub-basin area
490,1km²
Upstream area
2 596,5km²
Discharge
138,04m³/s
Mean elev.
234m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Nichare1138 km²
- Bassin de Río Nichare969 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Sierra Maigualida
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
488.01 km² overlap
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
488.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
109 distinct species · 206 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 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 Nichare : 12 espèces reliées par 19 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 11.1%, 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
2 696mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,34
Runoff
1 573mm/an
PET
1 763mm
AET
1 445mm
Mean slope
8,4°
Water table
311cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)