HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080100590
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 16 administrative regions : Aguada, Barbosa, Chimá, Chipatá, Contratación +11
Sub-basin area
739,1km²
Upstream area
6 104,8km²
Discharge
148,52m³/s
Mean elev.
1 725m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Huertas932 km²
- Bassin de Río Suárez756 km²
16 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 122.5 km²16.6% of basin
- 94.0 km²12.8% of basin
- 91.3 km²12.4% of basin
- 73.2 km²9.9% of basin
- 72.5 km²9.8% of basin
- 70.4 km²9.6% of basin
- 57.4 km²7.8% of basin
- 49.9 km²6.8% of basin
8 moreFull L2 list
- Vélez42.8 km² · 5.8%
- San Benito40.1 km² · 5.5%
- Güepsa19.6 km² · 2.7%
- Simacota1.3 km² · 0.2%
- Barbosa0.6 km² · 0.1%
- Santa Helena del Opón0.3 km² · 0.0%
- Guapotá0.0 km² · 0.0%
- Santana0.0 km² · 0.0%
7 intersecting protected areas
Serranía de los Yariguíes
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
224.05 km² overlap
Serranía de los Yariguíes
IUCN IINational Natural Park
32.82 km² overlap
Reserva Natural La Meseta
IUCN Not ApplicableNature Reserve
6.35 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrográfica Rio Opón
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
1.65 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrografica del Rìo Carare-Minero
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
0.85 km² overlap
Ojo de Agua
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.23 km² overlap
Macúa
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
927 distinct species · 6 080 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 : 16 espèces reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.5%, 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°
18,9°C
Annual rain
2 728mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,45
Runoff
1 155mm/an
PET
1 492mm
AET
1 456mm
Mean slope
15,3°
Water table
515cm
Forest
19%
Crops
9%
Urban
1%
Protected
35%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)