HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080162920
Bassin de Río Magdalena
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 11 administrative regions : Agrado, Algeciras, El Paujíl, Florencia, Garzón +6
Sub-basin area
1 282,7km²
Upstream area
6 665,5km²
Discharge
211,98m³/s
Mean elev.
1 459m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Suaza1416 km²
- Bassin de Río Magdalena1023 km²
11 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 482.0 km²37.7% of basin
- 372.9 km²29.2% of basin
- 254.6 km²19.9% of basin
- 133.2 km²10.4% of basin
- 15.7 km²1.2% of basin
- 8.2 km²0.6% of basin
- 4.3 km²0.3% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.2% of basin
13 intersecting protected areas
Regional Natural Parks
212.78 km² overlap
Matambo 3
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
22.65 km² overlap
Cuenca hidrográfica del río Suaza con Plan de Ordenación y Manejo de la Cuenca Hidrográfica
IUCN Not ApplicablePOMCA
19.83 km² overlap
Serranía de Minas
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
14.21 km² overlap
Cerro Matambo
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
9.18 km² overlap
Matambo 2
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
4.13 km² overlap
Miraflores Picachos
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
3.50 km² overlap
Lote Número 1 Las Nubes
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
1.81 km² overlap
Civil Society Nature Reserve
0.12 km² overlap
4 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Los Alpes
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.11 km² overlap
Las Juntas
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.08 km² overlap
Jerusalen
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
La Estrella
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 907 distinct species · 90 012 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 Magdalena : 17 espèces reliées par 13 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
19,9°C
Annual rain
1 558mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
1 057mm/an
PET
1 466mm
AET
1 163mm
Mean slope
13,3°
Water table
340cm
Forest
14%
Crops
3%
Urban
2%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)