HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080184910
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 2 administrative regions : Milán, Morelia
Sub-basin area
122,6km²
Upstream area
4 299,1km²
Discharge
285,47m³/s
Mean elev.
236m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Bodoquero1065 km²
- Bassin de Río Orteguaza670 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 107.5 km²88.0% of basin
- 14.6 km²12.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Hacienda Esmeraldas
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
230 distinct species · 463 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 Orteguaza : 30 espèces reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 4.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
3 341mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,51
Runoff
2 408mm/an
PET
1 635mm
AET
1 598mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
30cm
Forest
9%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)