HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080213650
Bassin de Río Aguarico
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 6 administrative regions : Cascales, Cuyabeno, Gonzalo Pizarro, La Joya de los Sachas, Lago Agrio +1
Sub-basin area
3 196,3km²
Upstream area
6 729,4km²
Discharge
360,1m³/s
Mean elev.
322m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Due Grande639 km²
- Bassin de Río Aguarico349 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1322.6 km²41.6% of basin
- 596.7 km²18.8% of basin
- 595.5 km²18.7% of basin
- 498.9 km²15.7% of basin
- 144.5 km²4.5% of basin
- La Joya de los SachasOrellana · Ecuador23.8 km²0.7% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
461.94 km² overlap
Cuyabeno
IUCN VIFauna Production Reserve
342.01 km² overlap
Cayambe Coca
IUCN IINational Park
0.42 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 082 distinct species · 48 734 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 Aguarico : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 21 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
3 379mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,51
Runoff
2 379mm/an
PET
1 637mm
AET
1 637mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
50cm
Forest
53%
Crops
1%
Urban
1%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)