HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080217190
Bassin de Río Napo
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 : La Joya de los Sachas, Orellana, Shushufindi
Sub-basin area
1 095,1km²
Upstream area
18 942,4km²
Discharge
1 347,99m³/s
Mean elev.
282m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Coca950 km²
- Bassin de Río Napo7 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 600.2 km²55.1% of basin
- La Joya de los SachasOrellana · Ecuador490.0 km²44.9% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Limoncocha
IUCN IbBiological Reserve
0.13 km² overlap
Reserva Biológica Limoncocha
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 251 distinct species · 56 927 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 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 Napo : 11 espèces reliées par 15 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 12.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
3 372mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,51
Runoff
2 490mm/an
PET
1 642mm
AET
1 642mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
31cm
Forest
44%
Crops
23%
Urban
1%
Protected
86%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)