HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080104150
Bassin de Río Magdalena
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 3 administrative regions : Puerto Boyacá, Puerto Triunfo, Sonsón
Sub-basin area
310,8km²
Upstream area
65 931,4km²
Discharge
2 117,27m³/s
Mean elev.
177m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Quebrada Velásquez339 km²
- Bassin de Río Magdalena209 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 182.0 km²58.8% of basin
- Puerto BoyacáBoyacá · Colombia119.9 km²38.7% of basin
- 7.6 km²2.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Torrelavega
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
1.58 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
829 distinct species · 24 559 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Magdalena : 17 espèces reliées par 28 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
2 361mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,25
Runoff
1 399mm/an
PET
1 775mm
AET
1 616mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
63cm
Forest
4%
Crops
6%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)