HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080179960
Bassin de Río Guáitara
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 16 administrative regions : Ancuyá, Consacá, El Peñol, El Tambo, Guaitarilla +11
Sub-basin area
840,1km²
Upstream area
3 367km²
Discharge
61,03m³/s
Mean elev.
2 097m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Quebrada Magdalena430 km²
- Bassin de Río Guáitara132 km²
16 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 121.5 km²14.5% of basin
- 115.6 km²13.8% of basin
- 99.6 km²11.9% of basin
- 99.1 km²11.9% of basin
- 84.9 km²10.2% of basin
- 83.9 km²10.0% of basin
- 83.0 km²9.9% of basin
- 63.7 km²7.6% of basin
8 moreFull L2 list
- Imués43.8 km² · 5.2%
- El Peñol24.1 km² · 2.9%
- Samaniego7.7 km² · 0.9%
- Nariño5.3 km² · 0.6%
- Túquerres2.3 km² · 0.3%
- Tangua0.9 km² · 0.1%
- San Juan de Pasto0.7 km² · 0.1%
- Providencia0.3 km² · 0.0%
9 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca Hidrográfica Rio Guáitara
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
433.50 km² overlap
Galeras
IUCN IbFauna and Flora Sanctuary
58.83 km² overlap
Integrated Management Regional Districts
15.27 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrográfica Río Juanambú
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
3.26 km² overlap
La Laurita
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.07 km² overlap
Los Rayos
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
El Recuerdo
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
Reserva Natural Privada La Monarca
IUCN Not ApplicablePrivate Nature Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
El Encanto
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 108 distinct species · 20 232 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Guáitara : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.7%, 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°
16,4°C
Annual rain
1 499mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
1 148mm/an
PET
1 328mm
AET
1 144mm
Mean slope
20,3°
Water table
665cm
Forest
9%
Crops
10%
Urban
3%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)