HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080120550
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 2 administrative regions : La Virginia, Pereira
Sub-basin area
64,2km²
Upstream area
21 894,6km²
Discharge
617,78m³/s
Mean elev.
1 045m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Risaralda1237 km²
- Bassin de Río Cañaveral378 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 43.6 km²68.2% of basin
- 20.3 km²31.8% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Guásimo
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
12.71 km² overlap
Bosque Kaukita
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.22 km² overlap
Cauquitá
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrográfica del Río La Vieja
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
751 distinct species · 31 988 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 : 18 espèces reliées par 17 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
23,1°C
Annual rain
1 809mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
1 306mm/an
PET
1 728mm
AET
1 500mm
Mean slope
7,2°
Water table
341cm
Forest
1%
Crops
43%
Urban
5%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)