HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080112430
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 18 administrative regions : Anserma, Aranzazú, Caramanta, Filadelfia, Guática +13
Sub-basin area
1 243,3km²
Upstream area
25 567,7km²
Discharge
693,99m³/s
Mean elev.
1 531m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Chinchiná1045 km²
- Bassin de Río Campoalegre789 km²
18 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 243.1 km²19.6% of basin
- 191.6 km²15.5% of basin
- 184.9 km²14.9% of basin
- 157.5 km²12.7% of basin
- 119.9 km²9.7% of basin
- 115.1 km²9.3% of basin
- 93.8 km²7.6% of basin
- 59.9 km²4.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Cerro Gobia
IUCN VRecreation Area
2.72 km² overlap
Cuchilla Jardin Tamesis
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
0.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 691 distinct species · 125 214 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 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 : 13 espèces reliées par 18 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.5%, 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°
19,9°C
Annual rain
2 214mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,33
Runoff
1 265mm/an
PET
1 466mm
AET
1 421mm
Mean slope
16,6°
Water table
477cm
Forest
13%
Crops
17%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)