HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080188410
Bassin de Río Cachaví
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 1 administrative regions : San Lorenzo
Sub-basin area
835,9km²
Upstream area
836,2km²
Discharge
47,35m³/s
Mean elev.
168m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- San LorenzoEsmeraldas · Ecuador832.2 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
La Chiquita
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
7.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 890 distinct species · 14 384 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 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 Cachaví : 16 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 18 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.5%, 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
2 800mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,45
Runoff
1 784mm/an
PET
1 534mm
AET
1 524mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
156cm
Forest
59%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
32%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)