HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080111530
Bassin de Río Meta
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 : La Primavera, Paz de Ariporo, Trinidad
Sub-basin area
426,2km²
Upstream area
70 447,9km²
Discharge
3 590,17m³/s
Mean elev.
112m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Meta2337 km²
- Bassin de Río Guachiría651 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 261.5 km²61.6% of basin
- 158.8 km²37.4% of basin
- 4.1 km²1.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Laguna la Primavera
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
114.85 km² overlap
El Tirriagal
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
7.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
170 distinct species · 381 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Meta : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 4.6%, 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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
2 211mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,24
Runoff
1 599mm/an
PET
1 681mm
AET
1 330mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
8cm
Forest
24%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)