HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080182880
Bassin de Río Mira
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Barbacoas, San Lorenzo, Tulcán, Tumaco
Sub-basin area
259,4km²
Upstream area
7 213km²
Discharge
259,26m³/s
Mean elev.
217m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río San Juan1605 km²
- Bassin de Río Mira286 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 136.8 km²53.0% of basin
- 119.2 km²46.2% of basin
- 2.0 km²0.8% of basin
- San LorenzoEsmeraldas · Ecuador0.2 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
302 distinct species · 447 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Mira : 28 espèces reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 4.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
3 442mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,56
Runoff
2 310mm/an
PET
1 495mm
AET
1 495mm
Mean slope
6,3°
Water table
178cm
Forest
78%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)