HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080102630
Bassin de Río Casanare
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 : Hato Corozal, Paz de Ariporo, Sácama, Tame
Sub-basin area
439,5km²
Upstream area
1 546,2km²
Discharge
77,79m³/s
Mean elev.
1 112m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Casanare359 km²
- Bassin de Río Playón212 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 359.2 km²82.1% of basin
- 54.5 km²12.5% of basin
- 23.9 km²5.5% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
El Cocuy
IUCN IINational Natural Park
35.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
123 distinct species · 225 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Casanare : 27 espèces reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
22,2°C
Annual rain
2 730mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,40
Runoff
1 466mm/an
PET
1 585mm
AET
1 380mm
Mean slope
14,5°
Water table
477cm
Forest
53%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
26%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)