HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080161240
Bassin de Río Palace
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 6 administrative regions : Cajibío, Inzá, Popayán, Puracé, Silvia +1
Sub-basin area
660,7km²
Upstream area
660,7km²
Discharge
21,91m³/s
Mean elev.
2 481m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 399.9 km²60.8% of basin
- 125.0 km²19.0% of basin
- 81.9 km²12.4% of basin
- 41.1 km²6.2% of basin
- 8.9 km²1.3% of basin
- 1.1 km²0.2% of basin
11 intersecting protected areas
El Chuscal Parte Alta
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
1.89 km² overlap
Puracé
IUCN IINational Natural Park
0.88 km² overlap
Betania
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.68 km² overlap
La Cantera Y La Laguna
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.32 km² overlap
El Recuerdo
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.24 km² overlap
Oasis
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.14 km² overlap
El Porvenir
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.13 km² overlap
Amalaka
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.11 km² overlap
La Palomera
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.08 km² overlap
2 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Monte Redondo
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.08 km² overlap
Alto
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 200 distinct species · 73 306 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Palace : 17 espèces reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
13,7°C
Annual rain
1 976mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,36
Runoff
1 120mm/an
PET
1 261mm
AET
1 193mm
Mean slope
9,6°
Water table
339cm
Forest
3%
Crops
8%
Urban
2%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)