HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080157960
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 5 administrative regions : Cajibío, El Tambo, Morales, Popayán, Totoró
Sub-basin area
796,8km²
Upstream area
2 665,7km²
Discharge
93,94m³/s
Mean elev.
1 837m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Palace661 km²
- Bassin de Río Cauca1 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 415.0 km²52.3% of basin
- 317.0 km²40.0% of basin
- 59.5 km²7.5% of basin
- 1.2 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.1% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
La Chicueña
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.28 km² overlap
San Gabriel
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.25 km² overlap
Sueños Verdes
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.18 km² overlap
Las Acacias
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.08 km² overlap
Munchique
IUCN IINational Natural Park
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 918 distinct species · 13 061 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 : 16 espèces reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
17,7°C
Annual rain
2 654mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,44
Runoff
1 526mm/an
PET
1 459mm
AET
1 391mm
Mean slope
11,1°
Water table
371cm
Forest
7%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)