HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080120650
Bassin de Río Risaralda
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, Apía, Balboa, Belalcázar, Belén de Umbría +13
Sub-basin area
1 236,6km²
Upstream area
1 236,6km²
Discharge
61,03m³/s
Mean elev.
1 710m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
18 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 193.5 km²15.7% of basin
- 178.7 km²14.5% of basin
- 170.6 km²13.9% of basin
- 136.6 km²11.1% of basin
- 111.7 km²9.1% of basin
- 91.3 km²7.4% of basin
- 79.7 km²6.5% of basin
- 74.6 km²6.1% of basin
10 moreFull L2 list
- Belalcázar55.9 km² · 4.5%
- San José43.9 km² · 3.6%
- Balboa32.6 km² · 2.6%
- Risaralda32.3 km² · 2.6%
- La Celia13.9 km² · 1.1%
- La Virginia11.7 km² · 1.0%
- Jardín1.7 km² · 0.1%
- Pueblo Rico1.1 km² · 0.1%
- Quinchía1.0 km² · 0.1%
- Nóvita0.5 km² · 0.0%
16 intersecting protected areas
Cuchilla Del San Juan
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
100.40 km² overlap
Tatamá
IUCN IINational Natural Park
38.02 km² overlap
Cristalina la Mesa
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
22.51 km² overlap
Arrayanal
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
11.28 km² overlap
Santa Emilia
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
5.28 km² overlap
Planes de San Rafael
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
5.10 km² overlap
Agualinda
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
3.27 km² overlap
Verdum
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
2.39 km² overlap
Cuchilla Jardin Tamesis
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
1.82 km² overlap
7 more protected areassorted by overlap area
La Margarita
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.99 km² overlap
Alto del Rey
IUCN VRecreation Area
0.78 km² overlap
La Cristalina
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.62 km² overlap
Guásimo
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
0.61 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrográfica Del Río San Juan
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
0.14 km² overlap
Reserva Natural Privada Verdes Horizontes
IUCN Not ApplicablePrivate Nature Reserve
0.11 km² overlap
La Palma de Tatamá
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 413 distinct species · 376 883 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 11 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 Risaralda : 9 espèces reliées par 8 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 14.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
18,8°C
Annual rain
2 310mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,38
Runoff
1 622mm/an
PET
1 408mm
AET
1 367mm
Mean slope
14,8°
Water table
405cm
Forest
22%
Crops
19%
Urban
2%
Protected
14%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)