HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080107990
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 9 administrative regions : Aguadas, Caramanta, La Merced, La Pintada, Marmato +4
Sub-basin area
468,9km²
Upstream area
26 548,3km²
Discharge
703,77m³/s
Mean elev.
1 435m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cauca1243 km²
- Bassin de Río Pocito512 km²
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 140.5 km²30.1% of basin
- 122.5 km²26.2% of basin
- 78.2 km²16.8% of basin
- 68.0 km²14.6% of basin
- 31.7 km²6.8% of basin
- 14.4 km²3.1% of basin
- 11.3 km²2.4% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- Riosucio0.1 km² · 0.0%
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 095 distinct species · 12 144 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 : 15 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 23 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.0%, 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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
2 366mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,36
Runoff
1 261mm/an
PET
1 483mm
AET
1 431mm
Mean slope
18,6°
Water table
523cm
Forest
16%
Crops
13%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)