HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080211350
Bassin de Río Machacuyacu
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 : El Chaco, Gonzalo Pizarro
Sub-basin area
471,8km²
Upstream area
471,8km²
Discharge
25,65m³/s
Mean elev.
1 681m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 469.6 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sumaco Napo-Galeras
IUCN IINational Park
312.67 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
699 distinct species · 2 432 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Machacuyacu : 14 espèces reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
18,5°C
Annual rain
3 146mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,51
Runoff
1 746mm/an
PET
1 515mm
AET
1 511mm
Mean slope
12,0°
Water table
367cm
Forest
73%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
68%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)