HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080149320
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 8 administrative regions : Buenaventura, Buenos Aires, Caloto, Jamundí, López de Micay +3
Sub-basin area
1 438,6km²
Upstream area
5 994km²
Discharge
215,52m³/s
Mean elev.
1 352m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Ovejas910 km²
- Bassin de Río Cauca171 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 411.5 km²28.7% of basin
- 336.3 km²23.5% of basin
- 283.4 km²19.8% of basin
- 158.0 km²11.0% of basin
- 132.8 km²9.3% of basin
- 53.6 km²3.7% of basin
- 53.4 km²3.7% of basin
- 3.2 km²0.2% of basin
10 intersecting protected areas
Farallones de Cali
IUCN IINational Natural Park
36.32 km² overlap
Japio Garces & Cia SCA
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
4.64 km² overlap
San Vicente
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
1.75 km² overlap
Cusagui
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.14 km² overlap
La Pradera
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.03 km² overlap
Villa Daniela
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.03 km² overlap
La Cuchilla 2
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Bella Vista
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Piedra Sentada
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Cordoba 1
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 160 distinct species · 65 633 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 : 17 espèces reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
21,6°C
Annual rain
2 271mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,26
Runoff
1 583mm/an
PET
1 624mm
AET
1 499mm
Mean slope
9,8°
Water table
321cm
Forest
8%
Crops
19%
Urban
3%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)