HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080138430
Bassin de Río Meta
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 3 administrative regions : Castilla la Nueva, Puerto López, San Carlos de Guaroa
Sub-basin area
161,8km²
Upstream area
2 969,7km²
Discharge
206,41m³/s
Mean elev.
232m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Orotoy352 km²
- Bassin de Río Meta90 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 114.4 km²71.0% of basin
- 32.2 km²20.0% of basin
- 14.5 km²9.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
119 distinct species · 796 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Meta : 35 espèces reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
2 560mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,36
Runoff
1 957mm/an
PET
1 631mm
AET
1 402mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
22cm
Forest
1%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)