HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080180590
Bassin de Río Orteguaza
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 5 administrative regions : Florencia, Garzón, Guadalupe, La Montañita, Suazá
Sub-basin area
1 697,4km²
Upstream area
1 697,4km²
Discharge
98,24m³/s
Mean elev.
1 297m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1582.1 km²93.6% of basin
- 65.8 km²3.9% of basin
- 25.7 km²1.5% of basin
- 14.3 km²0.8% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.1% of basin
16 intersecting protected areas
Distrito de Conservación de Suelos y Aguas del Caquetá
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation District
417.16 km² overlap
Miraflores Picachos
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
84.39 km² overlap
Cuenca hidrográfica del río Suaza con Plan de Ordenación y Manejo de la Cuenca Hidrográfica
IUCN Not ApplicablePOMCA
2.64 km² overlap
El Agrado
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
1.50 km² overlap
La Albania
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
1.48 km² overlap
El Venado
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
1.29 km² overlap
El Bosque
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.76 km² overlap
El Rubí
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.48 km² overlap
La Argentina
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.48 km² overlap
7 more protected areassorted by overlap area
El Mirador
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.47 km² overlap
San Lorenzo
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.43 km² overlap
Las Delicias
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.29 km² overlap
Reserva Ambiwasi
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.26 km² overlap
La Cumbre
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.15 km² overlap
Reserva Buenavista
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.15 km² overlap
Regional Natural Parks
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 868 distinct species · 115 821 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 Orteguaza : 17 espèces reliées par 17 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.9%, 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°
20,6°C
Annual rain
2 360mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,35
Runoff
1 810mm/an
PET
1 455mm
AET
1 403mm
Mean slope
15,3°
Water table
401cm
Forest
33%
Crops
0%
Urban
2%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)