HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080126030
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 9 administrative regions : Bolívar, Bugalagrande, El Dovio, La Unión, La Victoria +4
Sub-basin area
729,6km²
Upstream area
16 437,2km²
Discharge
446,42m³/s
Mean elev.
1 156m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río La Paila424 km²
- Bassin de Río Cauca148 km²
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 240.0 km²33.0% of basin
- 173.6 km²23.9% of basin
- Bolívar125.7 km²17.3% of basin
- La Victoria83.1 km²11.4% of basin
- La Unión72.4 km²10.0% of basin
- 19.1 km²2.6% of basin
- 11.0 km²1.5% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.1% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- El Dovio0.6 km² · 0.1%
20 intersecting protected areas
BRUT Nativos
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
100.81 km² overlap
Guacas
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
37.10 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrográfica del Río La Vieja
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
0.97 km² overlap
La Aldea
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.75 km² overlap
El Garcero del Medio 2
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.47 km² overlap
La Corcova
IUCN VRecreation Area
0.47 km² overlap
Campo Hermoso
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.42 km² overlap
La Rivera
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.28 km² overlap
Las Brisas
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.19 km² overlap
11 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Versalles
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.15 km² overlap
El Horizonte
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.14 km² overlap
La Trinidad
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.13 km² overlap
El Guayabal
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.09 km² overlap
La Pradera
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.07 km² overlap
El Trapiche
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
La Emelia
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.03 km² overlap
Itaca
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Villa Juliana
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
La Reforestación
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.00 km² overlap
La Cabañita
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 229 distinct species · 19 339 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 Cauca : 26 espèces reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
22,5°C
Annual rain
1 311mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
1 273mm/an
PET
1 663mm
AET
1 089mm
Mean slope
7,1°
Water table
244cm
Forest
1%
Crops
33%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)