HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080209340
Bassin de Río Pita
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 9 administrative regions : Archidona, Cayambe, El Chaco, Latacunga, Mejía +4
Sub-basin area
2 689,5km²
Upstream area
2 690km²
Discharge
57,48m³/s
Mean elev.
3 271m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1683.3 km²62.9% of basin
- 674.1 km²25.2% of basin
- 135.3 km²5.1% of basin
- 100.3 km²3.7% of basin
- 76.8 km²2.9% of basin
- 4.2 km²0.2% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.1% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.1% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- Sigchos0.0 km² · 0.0%
8 intersecting protected areas
Cotopaxi
IUCN IINational Park
151.22 km² overlap
Cayambe Coca
IUCN IINational Park
105.32 km² overlap
Los Ilinizas
IUCN IbEcological Reserve
71.01 km² overlap
APH Ponce Paluguillo
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
42.58 km² overlap
Complejo de Humedales Ñucanchi Turupamba
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
15.67 km² overlap
Pasochoa
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
9.79 km² overlap
El Boliche
IUCN VNational Recreation Area
1.96 km² overlap
Antisana
IUCN IINational Park
1.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 712 distinct species · 511 455 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Pita : 27 espèces reliées par 48 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
10,2°C
Annual rain
1 147mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,01
Runoff
937mm/an
PET
1 165mm
AET
890mm
Mean slope
10,9°
Water table
384cm
Forest
2%
Crops
12%
Urban
21%
Protected
26%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)