HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080161700
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 : Isnos, La Argentina, Popayán, Puracé, Saladoblanco +3
Sub-basin area
844,5km²
Upstream area
844,5km²
Discharge
24,97m³/s
Mean elev.
2 809m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 493.3 km²58.7% of basin
- 291.7 km²34.7% of basin
- 32.9 km²3.9% of basin
- 8.0 km²0.9% of basin
- 7.6 km²0.9% of basin
- 7.0 km²0.8% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Puracé
IUCN IINational Natural Park
59.19 km² overlap
Arrayanales
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
1.60 km² overlap
Civil Society Nature Reserve
1.01 km² overlap
El Retiro
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.95 km² overlap
Leguaro
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.83 km² overlap
La Palma
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.67 km² overlap
San Pedro Y El Recuerdo
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.41 km² overlap
Parcela No. 6
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.37 km² overlap
El Naranjal
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.29 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
La Ceja
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.27 km² overlap
Recuerdo
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.26 km² overlap
El Cedro
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.23 km² overlap
La Montaña Y La Palma
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.23 km² overlap
La Cantera Y La Laguna
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.20 km² overlap
Santa Elena
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.17 km² overlap
Villa de Santa Helena
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.17 km² overlap
Civil Society Nature Reserve
0.16 km² overlap
Sauce
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.16 km² overlap
Santa Martha
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.16 km² overlap
Los Pinos
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.16 km² overlap
El Portal
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.14 km² overlap
Puerta Dorada
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.14 km² overlap
Civil Society Nature Reserve
0.14 km² overlap
Buena Vista
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.14 km² overlap
El Manzano
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.13 km² overlap
La Primavera
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.13 km² overlap
Oasis
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.13 km² overlap
La Estrella
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.12 km² overlap
Parcela No. 9 La Josefina
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.12 km² overlap
Parcela No. 2 La Josefina
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 901 distinct species · 99 815 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 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 : 12 espèces reliées par 22 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.9%, 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°
11,6°C
Annual rain
2 035mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
1 095mm/an
PET
1 145mm
AET
1 106mm
Mean slope
10,8°
Water table
335cm
Forest
9%
Crops
6%
Urban
5%
Protected
11%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)