HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080140130
Bassin de Caño Chiquita
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 2 administrative regions : Cacahual, Puerto Inírida
Sub-basin area
1 173km²
Upstream area
1 173,1km²
Discharge
81,37m³/s
Mean elev.
102m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 716.2 km²61.3% of basin
- 451.6 km²38.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sitio Ramsar Complejo de Humedales de la Estrella Fluvial Inirida
IUCN Not ApplicableWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
66.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
481 distinct species · 2 156 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 Chiquita : 17 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 19 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.2%, 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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
3 024mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,41
Runoff
2 188mm/an
PET
1 776mm
AET
1 585mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
17cm
Forest
90%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)