HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080102900
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 : Chita, El Cocuy, La Salina, Tame
Sub-basin area
269,9km²
Upstream area
270,1km²
Discharge
12,41m³/s
Mean elev.
3 006m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 178.1 km²66.3% of basin
- 74.1 km²27.6% of basin
- 16.1 km²6.0% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
El Cocuy
IUCN IINational Natural Park
200.85 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
100 distinct species · 1 643 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 14 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 : 11 espèces reliées par 10 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
10,8°C
Annual rain
1 715mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,27
Runoff
1 348mm/an
PET
1 106mm
AET
938mm
Mean slope
20,2°
Water table
686cm
Forest
50%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
74%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)