HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080105600
Bassin de Río Moniquira
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 19 administrative regions : Arcabuco, Chiquinquirá, Chíquiza, Cucaita, Gachantivá +14
Sub-basin area
1 204,6km²
Upstream area
1 204,8km²
Discharge
29,93m³/s
Mean elev.
2 545m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
19 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 173.1 km²14.4% of basin
- 127.3 km²10.6% of basin
- 125.0 km²10.4% of basin
- Villa de LeyvaBoyacá · Colombia123.3 km²10.3% of basin
- 112.2 km²9.4% of basin
- SutamarchánBoyacá · Colombia109.3 km²9.1% of basin
- GachantiváBoyacá · Colombia89.5 km²7.5% of basin
- Santa SofíaBoyacá · Colombia78.3 km²6.5% of basin
11 moreFull L2 list
- Tinjacá77.1 km² · 6.4%
- Sáchica65.5 km² · 5.5%
- Sora35.0 km² · 2.9%
- Arcabuco34.5 km² · 2.9%
- Cucaita28.8 km² · 2.4%
- San Miguel de Sema10.1 km² · 0.8%
- Puente Nacional4.6 km² · 0.4%
- Saboyá4.3 km² · 0.4%
- Chiquinquirá1.4 km² · 0.1%
- Tunja0.1 km² · 0.0%
- Motavita0.1 km² · 0.0%
30 intersecting protected areas
Iguaque
IUCN IbFauna and Flora Sanctuary
57.61 km² overlap
Páramo de Rabanal
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
22.81 km² overlap
Sierra el Peligro
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
15.15 km² overlap
Páramos de Telecom y Merchán
IUCN VIRegional Protective Forest Reserves
3.76 km² overlap
Civil Society Nature Reserve
0.40 km² overlap
Serranía el Peligro
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
0.34 km² overlap
Mareigua
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.21 km² overlap
El Robledal
IUCN VIRegional Protective Forest Reserves
0.17 km² overlap
Rincón de las Vegas
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.12 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Robledales
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.09 km² overlap
Pantanillo
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.09 km² overlap
Reserva Unsáua
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.08 km² overlap
Iguakan
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.07 km² overlap
Furatena
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.06 km² overlap
Buenavista
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.06 km² overlap
El Bosque
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.06 km² overlap
Nido De Robles
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.05 km² overlap
La Floresta
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.05 km² overlap
La Periquera
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.05 km² overlap
Casa De Teja
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
Monte Makuna
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
La Cueva
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.03 km² overlap
Corazón de Loquita
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.03 km² overlap
Cochahuaira
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Ieiasca
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Auromira
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Mamaramos
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Villa de Simón
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Xue
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Catigua
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 593 distinct species · 64 309 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Moniquira : 17 espèces reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
14,3°C
Annual rain
1 224mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
811mm/an
PET
1 242mm
AET
969mm
Mean slope
10,6°
Water table
395cm
Forest
6%
Crops
6%
Urban
2%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)