HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080187570
Bassin de Río Onzole
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 : Cotacachi, Eloy Alfaro, Quinindé, Río Verde, San Lorenzo
Sub-basin area
2 950,5km²
Upstream area
2 950,9km²
Discharge
116,46m³/s
Mean elev.
331m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Eloy AlfaroEsmeraldas · Ecuador2904.4 km²98.9% of basin
- 30.1 km²1.0% of basin
- 2.7 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
- San LorenzoEsmeraldas · Ecuador0.0 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Cotacachi Cayapas
IUCN IINational Park
801.60 km² overlap
El Pambilar
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
31.08 km² overlap
Canandé
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
10.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 983 distinct species · 89 528 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 18 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 Onzole : 16 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 22 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 14.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
24,3°C
Annual rain
2 672mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,42
Runoff
1 299mm/an
PET
1 530mm
AET
1 471mm
Mean slope
7,5°
Water table
245cm
Forest
61%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)