HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080210630
Bassin de Río Toachi
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 3 administrative regions : Mejía, Santo Domingo, Sigchos
Sub-basin area
573,5km²
Upstream area
2 749km²
Discharge
104,46m³/s
Mean elev.
867m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Toachi1538 km²
- Bassin de Río Santa Ana637 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 565.8 km²99.1% of basin
- 5.1 km²0.9% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Los Ilinizas
IUCN IbEcological Reserve
1.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 695 distinct species · 48 058 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 Toachi : 21 espèces reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
21,2°C
Annual rain
2 705mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,47
Runoff
1 734mm/an
PET
1 416mm
AET
1 211mm
Mean slope
7,8°
Water table
281cm
Forest
18%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)