HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080125020
Bassin de Río Tunjuelito
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 7 administrative regions : Bogotá D.C., Chipaque, Mosquera, Pasca, Soacha +2
Sub-basin area
546,3km²
Upstream area
546,3km²
Discharge
17,31m³/s
Mean elev.
3 005m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Bogotá D.C.Bogotá D.C. · Colombia531.8 km²97.8% of basin
- 10.1 km²1.9% of basin
- 1.1 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Bosque Oriental de Bogotá
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
60.87 km² overlap
Sumapaz
IUCN IINational Natural Park
0.97 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.85 km² overlap
El Horadado De San Alejo
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 193 distinct species · 400 187 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Tunjuelito : 29 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.4%, 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°
10,8°C
Annual rain
1 001mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
1 022mm/an
PET
1 070mm
AET
772mm
Mean slope
7,7°
Water table
283cm
Forest
8%
Crops
6%
Urban
49%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)