HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080133740
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 10 administrative regions : Calima, El Cerrito, Ginebra, Guacarí, Guadalajara de Buga +5
Sub-basin area
1 080,4km²
Upstream area
12 848,6km²
Discharge
373,79m³/s
Mean elev.
1 230m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cauca435 km²
- Bassin de Río Guabas393 km²
10 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 342.7 km²31.9% of basin
- 269.4 km²25.0% of basin
- San Pedro152.1 km²14.1% of basin
- 114.1 km²10.6% of basin
- 96.2 km²8.9% of basin
- 77.7 km²7.2% of basin
- 20.7 km²1.9% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.1% of basin
2 moreFull L2 list
- El Cerrito0.9 km² · 0.1%
- Ginebra0.4 km² · 0.0%
12 intersecting protected areas
Río Guadalajara
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
83.27 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
55.24 km² overlap
Integrated Management Regional Districts
20.45 km² overlap
HATOVIEJO
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
12.63 km² overlap
Yotoco
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
11.77 km² overlap
La Albania
IUCN VIRegional Protective Forest Reserves
2.72 km² overlap
Río Guabas
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
2.22 km² overlap
El Vinculo
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
0.82 km² overlap
Quebrada La Valenzuela
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
0.50 km² overlap
3 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Alto Calima
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
0.33 km² overlap
Bugavá
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.19 km² overlap
Integrated Management Regional Districts
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 468 distinct species · 397 199 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 : 24 espèces reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
22,1°C
Annual rain
1 253mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
1 348mm/an
PET
1 621mm
AET
1 045mm
Mean slope
8,1°
Water table
300cm
Forest
6%
Crops
28%
Urban
5%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)