HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080105430
Bassin de Río Cauca
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 17 administrative regions : Aguadas, Andes, Caldas, Caramanta, Fredonia +12
Sub-basin area
1 096,9km²
Upstream area
29 493km²
Discharge
792,14m³/s
Mean elev.
1 440m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Arma1848 km²
- Bassin de Río Cauca469 km²
17 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 251.3 km²23.0% of basin
- 201.3 km²18.4% of basin
- 184.6 km²16.9% of basin
- 146.2 km²13.4% of basin
- 106.4 km²9.7% of basin
- 89.3 km²8.2% of basin
- 46.7 km²4.3% of basin
- 37.0 km²3.4% of basin
18 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca Hidrográfica Directos Río Cauca- Río Amagá- Quebrada Sinifaná- NSS
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
369.25 km² overlap
Cuchilla Jardin Tamesis
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
138.36 km² overlap
Nubes Trocha Capota
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
41.80 km² overlap
El Globo
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
3.60 km² overlap
Natura Peñalta 1
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
3.40 km² overlap
Cerro Bravo
IUCN VIRegional Protective Forest Reserves
3.31 km² overlap
Bellavista
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
2.13 km² overlap
El Porvenir 1
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
1.50 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrográfica Del Río San Juan
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
1.03 km² overlap
9 more protected areassorted by overlap area
El Porvenir La Luna
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.89 km² overlap
La Ermita
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.85 km² overlap
El Porvenir 2
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.45 km² overlap
Natura Madrigal 2
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.42 km² overlap
Reserva Natural Dos Rios
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.25 km² overlap
Providencia
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.17 km² overlap
Natura Madrigal 1
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.13 km² overlap
Peñalta 2
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.11 km² overlap
Civil Society Nature Reserve
0.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 553 distinct species · 228 646 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Cauca : 23 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 30 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
21,0°C
Annual rain
2 401mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,36
Runoff
1 379mm/an
PET
1 514mm
AET
1 431mm
Mean slope
14,8°
Water table
411cm
Forest
14%
Crops
9%
Urban
3%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)