HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080119260
Bassin de Río Bogotá
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 16 administrative regions : Chocontá, Cucunubá, Gachancipá, Guasca, Guatavita +11
Sub-basin area
1 079,5km²
Upstream area
1 079,8km²
Discharge
3,98m³/s
Mean elev.
2 850m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
16 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 247.2 km²23.0% of basin
- 176.1 km²16.4% of basin
- 150.0 km²14.0% of basin
- 140.4 km²13.1% of basin
- 126.1 km²11.7% of basin
- 112.6 km²10.5% of basin
- 46.6 km²4.3% of basin
- 41.3 km²3.8% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Páramo Grande
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
43.13 km² overlap
Laguna de Suesca
IUCN VISoil Conservation Districts
23.64 km² overlap
Cuchilla El Choque
IUCN VIRegional Protective Forest Reserves
12.32 km² overlap
Nacimiento del Río Bogotá
IUCN VIRegional Protective Forest Reserves
11.85 km² overlap
Chingaza
IUCN IINational Natural Park
8.67 km² overlap
Regional Protective Forest Reserves
6.62 km² overlap
Cerros Pionono y las Águilas
IUCN VIRegional Protective Forest Reserves
5.31 km² overlap
Vista Hermosa de Monquentiva
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
2.73 km² overlap
Jikuri
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
1.24 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
El Diluvio
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.97 km² overlap
EL Encenillo
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.85 km² overlap
Santa Maria de las Lagunas
IUCN VIRegional Protective Forest Reserves
0.80 km² overlap
La Ramada
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.32 km² overlap
Gualamana y Gualamana II
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.24 km² overlap
Carrisal
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.22 km² overlap
La Cumbre Suesca
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.18 km² overlap
Renasie
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.16 km² overlap
Páramo de El Frailejonal
IUCN VIRegional Protective Forest Reserves
0.13 km² overlap
Civil Society Nature Reserve
0.12 km² overlap
Las Lomas
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.09 km² overlap
Civil Society Nature Reserve
0.09 km² overlap
El Chochal de Siecha
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.06 km² overlap
El Turpial
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.05 km² overlap
Bosque de Niebla
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
Los Alisos
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
El Encanto
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
La Esperanza
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
Monayano
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Pionono
IUCN VIRegional Protective Forest Reserves
0.01 km² overlap
Civil Society Nature Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 169 distinct species · 120 945 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Bogotá : 19 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 56 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 8.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
12,5°C
Annual rain
982mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
775mm/an
PET
1 162mm
AET
791mm
Mean slope
8,6°
Water table
377cm
Forest
5%
Crops
10%
Urban
8%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)