HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080198820
Bassin de Río Mecaya
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 : Puerto Guzmán, Puerto Leguízamo
Sub-basin area
373,1km²
Upstream area
4 595,1km²
Discharge
365,76m³/s
Mean elev.
215m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Sábila1984 km²
- Bassin de Río Montoya982 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 358.0 km²96.4% of basin
- 13.4 km²3.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
La Paya
IUCN IINational Natural Park
166.89 km² overlap
Consejo Comunitario Vereda La Orquídea
IUCN Not ApplicableCommunal Council
0.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
91 distinct species · 279 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 Mecaya : 14 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 19 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 10.0%, 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
2 848mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
1 981mm/an
PET
1 621mm
AET
1 582mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
23cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
53%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)