HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080199250
Bassin de Río Guayllabamba
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 7 administrative regions : Cotacachi, Eloy Alfaro, Pedro Vicente Maldonado, Puerto Quito, Quinindé +2
Sub-basin area
2 506,8km²
Upstream area
8 245,4km²
Discharge
254,54m³/s
Mean elev.
1 297m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Christopamba1025 km²
- Bassin de Río Guayllabamba905 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1033.6 km²41.4% of basin
- 822.1 km²32.9% of basin
- 336.9 km²13.5% of basin
- 127.6 km²5.1% of basin
- 96.5 km²3.9% of basin
- 42.3 km²1.7% of basin
- Eloy AlfaroEsmeraldas · Ecuador36.4 km²1.5% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Cotacachi Cayapas
IUCN IINational Park
87.71 km² overlap
Mashpi Tayra
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
12.28 km² overlap
Bellavista - Tandayapa
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
6.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 644 distinct species · 1 919 741 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 6 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 Guayllabamba : 5 espèces reliées par 4 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 26.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
19,6°C
Annual rain
2 318mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,34
Runoff
1 385mm/an
PET
1 441mm
AET
1 242mm
Mean slope
13,0°
Water table
400cm
Forest
39%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)