HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080137160
Bassin de Río Guayuriba
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 : Acacías, Guayabetal, Gutiérrez, Puerto López, San Carlos de Guaroa +1
Sub-basin area
1 206,9km²
Upstream area
3 674,2km²
Discharge
219,6m³/s
Mean elev.
772m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Negro1449 km²
- Bassin de Río Los Medios1019 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 495.2 km²41.2% of basin
- 476.3 km²39.6% of basin
- 151.5 km²12.6% of basin
- 42.2 km²3.5% of basin
- 36.1 km²3.0% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Bosque de Los Guayupes
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
45.25 km² overlap
Páramo El Atravesado
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
5.34 km² overlap
Recreation Area
0.68 km² overlap
National Protective Forest Reserves
0.44 km² overlap
El Limonal y San Pedro
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.27 km² overlap
Refugio Del Tororoi
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.19 km² overlap
Quebrada Honda
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
0.09 km² overlap
Pozos La Chorrera
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 000 distinct species · 199 297 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 Guayuriba : 16 espèces reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.5%, 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°
23,7°C
Annual rain
3 347mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,49
Runoff
2 080mm/an
PET
1 584mm
AET
1 447mm
Mean slope
8,8°
Water table
257cm
Forest
22%
Crops
5%
Urban
2%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)