HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080105590
Bassin de Río Suárez
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 34 administrative regions : Albania, Barbosa, Bolívar, Buenavista, Caldas +29
Sub-basin area
2 473,3km²
Upstream area
2 473,3km²
Discharge
46,22m³/s
Mean elev.
2 630m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
34 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 247.4 km²10.0% of basin
- 226.0 km²9.2% of basin
- 218.3 km²8.9% of basin
- 171.9 km²7.0% of basin
- 154.7 km²6.3% of basin
- ChiquinquiráBoyacá · Colombia130.8 km²5.3% of basin
- 112.0 km²4.5% of basin
- 103.3 km²4.2% of basin
26 moreFull L2 list
- Villa de San Diego de Ubaté101.7 km² · 4.1%
- Susa101.4 km² · 4.1%
- Simijaca90.2 km² · 3.7%
- Cucunubá85.9 km² · 3.5%
- San Miguel de Sema85.5 km² · 3.5%
- Fúquene79.8 km² · 3.2%
- Caldas76.4 km² · 3.1%
- Guavatá75.2 km² · 3.1%
- Sutatausa63.9 km² · 2.6%
- Bolívar58.8 km² · 2.4%
- Jesús María56.9 km² · 2.3%
- Ráquira42.3 km² · 1.7%
- Vélez41.3 km² · 1.7%
- Suesca41.3 km² · 1.7%
- Villapinzón25.2 km² · 1.0%
- Tausa25.0 km² · 1.0%
- Barbosa17.9 km² · 0.7%
- Moniquirá12.5 km² · 0.5%
- El Peñon4.4 km² · 0.2%
- Florián3.8 km² · 0.2%
- Chocontá3.2 km² · 0.1%
- Samacá3.2 km² · 0.1%
- Tinjacá1.8 km² · 0.1%
- Ventaquemada0.3 km² · 0.0%
- Buenavista0.1 km² · 0.0%
- Santa Sofía0.0 km² · 0.0%
15 intersecting protected areas
Integrated Management Regional Districts
191.91 km² overlap
Integrated Management Regional Districts
86.30 km² overlap
Regional Protective Forest Reserves
41.62 km² overlap
Páramo de Rabanal
IUCN VIRegional Protective Forest Reserves
25.12 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrografica del Rìo Carare-Minero
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
19.70 km² overlap
Páramos de Telecom y Merchán
IUCN VIRegional Protective Forest Reserves
16.13 km² overlap
Juaitoque
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
3.99 km² overlap
El Robledal
IUCN VIRegional Protective Forest Reserves
3.82 km² overlap
Páramo de Rabanal
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
3.62 km² overlap
6 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Laguna de Suesca
IUCN VISoil Conservation Districts
2.12 km² overlap
Páramo Rabanal
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
0.45 km² overlap
Parque el Higuerón
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
0.21 km² overlap
Aya-S
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.06 km² overlap
Ecosaravita
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.06 km² overlap
Mi Terruño
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 788 distinct species · 64 704 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 Suárez : 18 espèces reliées par 40 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
13,8°C
Annual rain
1 343mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
852mm/an
PET
1 209mm
AET
971mm
Mean slope
9,1°
Water table
339cm
Forest
13%
Crops
7%
Urban
2%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)