HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080161380
Bassin de Caño Templado
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 2 administrative regions : La Uribe, San Vicente del Caguán
Sub-basin area
404,8km²
Upstream area
4 157km²
Discharge
117,43m³/s
Mean elev.
724m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río la reserva768 km²
- Bassin de Caño Dantas246 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 357.9 km²88.8% of basin
- 45.1 km²11.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Cordillera de los Picachos
IUCN IINational Natural Park
332.25 km² overlap
Tinigua
IUCN IINational Natural Park
70.63 km² overlap
Área de Manejo Especial La Macarena
IUCN Not ApplicableSpecial Management Area
0.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
129 distinct species · 199 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 Templado : 19 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 18 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.1%, 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
2 491mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,33
Runoff
1 022mm/an
PET
1 645mm
AET
1 553mm
Mean slope
9,2°
Water table
278cm
Forest
69%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)