HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080168560
Bassin de Río Suaza
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 10 administrative regions : Acevedo, Altamira, Belén de los Andaquies, Florencia, Garzón +5
Sub-basin area
1 415,6km²
Upstream area
1 415,8km²
Discharge
64,73m³/s
Mean elev.
1 567m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
10 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 515.7 km²36.6% of basin
- 410.1 km²29.1% of basin
- 252.1 km²17.9% of basin
- 121.1 km²8.6% of basin
- 65.2 km²4.6% of basin
- 29.1 km²2.1% of basin
- 8.6 km²0.6% of basin
- 6.6 km²0.5% of basin
2 moreFull L2 list
- Pitalito0.6 km² · 0.0%
- San José del Fragua0.1 km² · 0.0%
7 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca hidrográfica del río Suaza con Plan de Ordenación y Manejo de la Cuenca Hidrográfica
IUCN Not ApplicablePOMCA
975.85 km² overlap
Serranía de Peñas Blancas
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
137.77 km² overlap
Regional Natural Parks
69.54 km² overlap
Cueva de los Guácharos
IUCN IINational Natural Park
45.83 km² overlap
National Natural Park
10.73 km² overlap
Parque Municipal Natural Andaki
IUCN Not ApplicableAndakí Municipal Nature Park
0.39 km² overlap
El Palmar
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 473 distinct species · 41 118 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Suaza : 25 espèces reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.7%, 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°
19,3°C
Annual rain
1 791mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
1 510mm/an
PET
1 431mm
AET
1 273mm
Mean slope
15,5°
Water table
403cm
Forest
24%
Crops
2%
Urban
1%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)