HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080121980
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 5 administrative regions : Ansermanuevo, Cartago, El Cairo, El Águila, San José del Palmar
Sub-basin area
148,3km²
Upstream area
148,3km²
Discharge
8,23m³/s
Mean elev.
1 645m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 73.7 km²49.9% of basin
- 72.2 km²48.9% of basin
- 1.1 km²0.7% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.4% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Tatamá
IUCN IINational Natural Park
1.41 km² overlap
El Porvenir
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.46 km² overlap
Manzanares
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.40 km² overlap
Manzanares 2
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.35 km² overlap
Las Margaritas
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.25 km² overlap
Agua Clara
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.19 km² overlap
Serranía de Los Paraguas
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
0.18 km² overlap
Guayabito
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.16 km² overlap
El Encanto
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
420 distinct species · 2 625 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 : 31 espèces reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
19,2°C
Annual rain
2 246mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,32
Runoff
1 774mm/an
PET
1 450mm
AET
1 379mm
Mean slope
20,9°
Water table
665cm
Forest
8%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)