HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080191830
Bassin de Río Guáitara
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 : Cuaspud, Cumbal, Espejo, Tulcán
Sub-basin area
240,7km²
Upstream area
240,7km²
Discharge
4,02m³/s
Mean elev.
3 479m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 126.6 km²52.8% of basin
- 99.6 km²41.6% of basin
- 11.2 km²4.7% of basin
- 2.2 km²0.9% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca Hidrográfica Rio Guáitara
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
83.90 km² overlap
Reserva Ecológica El Ángel
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
64.47 km² overlap
El Ángel
IUCN IbEcological Reserve
59.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
776 distinct species · 3 394 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Guáitara : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.7%, 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°
8,4°C
Annual rain
1 199mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
933mm/an
PET
967mm
AET
870mm
Mean slope
9,6°
Water table
377cm
Forest
0%
Crops
11%
Urban
2%
Protected
25%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)