HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080131400
Bassin de Caño La Raya
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 6 administrative regions : Barranca de Upía, Cabuyaro, Medina, Paratebueno, Puerto López +1
Sub-basin area
985,9km²
Upstream area
986,2km²
Discharge
60m³/s
Mean elev.
253m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 349.0 km²35.6% of basin
- 316.9 km²32.3% of basin
- 312.4 km²31.8% of basin
- 3.3 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Aguas Calientes
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
6.28 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 356 distinct species · 34 362 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Caño La Raya : 32 espèces reliées par 50 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
3 106mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,45
Runoff
1 917mm/an
PET
1 672mm
AET
1 455mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
76cm
Forest
7%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)