HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080212320
Bassin de Río Salado
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 4 administrative regions : Cayambe, El Chaco, Gonzalo Pizarro, Pimampiro
Sub-basin area
935,9km²
Upstream area
935,9km²
Discharge
31,44m³/s
Mean elev.
2 935m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 465.1 km²49.9% of basin
- 253.5 km²27.2% of basin
- 213.1 km²22.9% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cayambe Coca
IUCN IINational Park
922.90 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 121 distinct species · 7 663 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 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 Salado : 15 espèces reliées par 15 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.8%, 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°
11,6°C
Annual rain
1 445mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,16
Runoff
1 134mm/an
PET
1 172mm
AET
1 035mm
Mean slope
21,1°
Water table
630cm
Forest
71%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
91%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)