HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080103790
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 2 administrative regions : Cravo Norte, Hato Corozal
Sub-basin area
665,4km²
Upstream area
15 622km²
Discharge
606,57m³/s
Mean elev.
99m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Caño Rico1019 km²
- Bassin de Río Casanare19 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Cravo NorteArauca · Colombia399.4 km²60.3% of basin
- 263.1 km²39.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Los Paraguitos
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
3.06 km² overlap
Cinaruco
IUCN VIIntegrated Management National Districts
1.93 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
171 distinct species · 354 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 : 28 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 47 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.5%, 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°
27,2°C
Annual rain
2 126mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,21
Runoff
1 319mm/an
PET
1 677mm
AET
1 262mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
9cm
Forest
21%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)