HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080212420
Bassin de Río Quijos
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, Quijos
Sub-basin area
336,9km²
Upstream area
2 795km²
Discharge
111,63m³/s
Mean elev.
2 059m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Oyacachi722 km²
- Bassin de Río Quijos325 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 335.4 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sumaco Napo-Galeras
IUCN IINational Park
130.68 km² overlap
Cayambe Coca
IUCN IINational Park
59.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 055 distinct species · 14 424 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Quijos : 23 espèces reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.8%, 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°
16,7°C
Annual rain
2 344mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,35
Runoff
1 548mm/an
PET
1 466mm
AET
1 433mm
Mean slope
18,6°
Water table
528cm
Forest
89%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
45%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)