HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080148150
Bassin de Río Peñas
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 : Mesetas, San Juan de Arama, Vista Hermosa
Sub-basin area
315,6km²
Upstream area
315,9km²
Discharge
13,22m³/s
Mean elev.
842m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 155.6 km²49.5% of basin
- 103.2 km²32.8% of basin
- 55.4 km²17.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sierra de la Macarena
IUCN IINational Natural Park
221.23 km² overlap
Área de Manejo Especial La Macarena
IUCN Not ApplicableSpecial Management Area
92.86 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 221 distinct species · 15 326 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 13 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 Peñas : 9 espèces reliées par 14 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 17.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
3 275mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,52
Runoff
1 331mm/an
PET
1 564mm
AET
1 482mm
Mean slope
14,3°
Water table
410cm
Forest
64%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
69%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)