HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080198470
Bassin de Río Chota
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 11 administrative regions : Bolívar, Cayambe, Espejo, Gonzalo Pizarro, Ibarra +6
Sub-basin area
1 919,5km²
Upstream area
1 919,6km²
Discharge
43,83m³/s
Mean elev.
2 926m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
11 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 433.4 km²22.7% of basin
- 364.9 km²19.1% of basin
- 358.3 km²18.8% of basin
- 259.1 km²13.6% of basin
- 210.7 km²11.0% of basin
- 136.8 km²7.2% of basin
- 76.1 km²4.0% of basin
- 68.0 km²3.6% of basin
3 moreFull L2 list
- Gonzalo Pizarro1.7 km² · 0.1%
- Sucumbíos1.3 km² · 0.1%
- Cayambe0.5 km² · 0.0%
6 intersecting protected areas
Decentralised Autonomous Protected Area
168.96 km² overlap
Reserva Ecológica El Ángel
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
81.66 km² overlap
El Ángel
IUCN IbEcological Reserve
77.28 km² overlap
Cayambe Coca
IUCN IINational Park
69.37 km² overlap
Pimampiro
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
36.43 km² overlap
La Bonita
IUCN VIEcological Area of Conservation
1.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 631 distinct species · 24 461 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Chota : 21 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 8.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
11,8°C
Annual rain
918mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
931mm/an
PET
1 172mm
AET
752mm
Mean slope
15,3°
Water table
561cm
Forest
13%
Crops
9%
Urban
2%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)