HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080120720
Bassin de Río Cañaveral
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 10 administrative regions : Ansermanuevo, Balboa, Cartago, El Águila, La Celia +5
Sub-basin area
377,8km²
Upstream area
20 594,2km²
Discharge
566,6m³/s
Mean elev.
1 440m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río La Vieja863 km²
- Bassin de Río Cauca5 km²
10 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 106.0 km²28.2% of basin
- 87.5 km²23.3% of basin
- 74.0 km²19.7% of basin
- 46.8 km²12.4% of basin
- 44.4 km²11.8% of basin
- 12.9 km²3.4% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.6% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.3% of basin
2 moreFull L2 list
- Cartago0.8 km² · 0.2%
- La Virginia0.4 km² · 0.1%
5 intersecting protected areas
Tatamá
IUCN IINational Natural Park
29.37 km² overlap
Verdum
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
3.36 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrográfica del Río La Vieja
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
0.60 km² overlap
Alto del Rey
IUCN VRecreation Area
0.59 km² overlap
Reserva Natural Privada Humberto Velez Velez
IUCN Not ApplicablePrivate Nature Reserve
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 330 distinct species · 22 291 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Cañaveral : 24 espèces reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
20,5°C
Annual rain
2 149mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,25
Runoff
1 716mm/an
PET
1 539mm
AET
1 430mm
Mean slope
16,5°
Water table
455cm
Forest
9%
Crops
19%
Urban
1%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)