HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080152760
Bassin de Caño Union
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 1 administrative regions : Vista Hermosa
Sub-basin area
265,4km²
Upstream area
265,4km²
Discharge
11,96m³/s
Mean elev.
582m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 264.2 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Área de Manejo Especial La Macarena
IUCN Not ApplicableSpecial Management Area
205.56 km² overlap
Sierra de la Macarena
IUCN IINational Natural Park
58.54 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
714 distinct species · 17 132 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 15 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 Union : 11 espèces reliées par 18 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 17.1%, 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
2 977mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,44
Runoff
1 421mm/an
PET
1 635mm
AET
1 501mm
Mean slope
9,2°
Water table
255cm
Forest
25%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
22%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)