HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080103570
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 5 administrative regions : Chita, La Salina, Sácama, Tame, Támara
Sub-basin area
358,8km²
Upstream area
894,9km²
Discharge
42,52m³/s
Mean elev.
1 584m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Casanare270 km²
- Bassin de Río Casanare266 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 282.3 km²79.0% of basin
- 66.3 km²18.6% of basin
- 6.4 km²1.8% of basin
- 1.9 km²0.5% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
El Cocuy
IUCN IINational Natural Park
48.58 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
405 distinct species · 1 314 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 Casanare : 22 espèces reliées par 39 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
19,9°C
Annual rain
2 236mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,28
Runoff
1 376mm/an
PET
1 507mm
AET
1 288mm
Mean slope
18,2°
Water table
606cm
Forest
72%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)