HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080139970
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 6 administrative regions : El Cerrito, La Cumbre, Palmira, Vijes, Yotoco +1
Sub-basin area
434,6km²
Upstream area
11 375,5km²
Discharge
362,9m³/s
Mean elev.
1 139m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Fraile1867 km²
- Bassin de Río Amaime756 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 161.9 km²37.4% of basin
- 139.7 km²32.3% of basin
- 73.9 km²17.1% of basin
- 45.3 km²10.5% of basin
- 10.6 km²2.5% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.3% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
El Cerro Dapa Carisucio
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
10.53 km² overlap
La Elvira
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
4.06 km² overlap
Rios Zabaletas y Cerrito
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
3.50 km² overlap
Refugio Corazones Verdes
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 466 distinct species · 114 652 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 18 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 : 13 espèces reliées par 17 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.1%, 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
1 064mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
1 554mm/an
PET
1 652mm
AET
898mm
Mean slope
6,5°
Water table
202cm
Forest
5%
Crops
19%
Urban
8%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)