HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080221020
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 3 administrative regions : Aguarico, Cuyabeno, Shushufindi
Sub-basin area
2 023,7km²
Upstream area
10 768,2km²
Discharge
647,25m³/s
Mean elev.
219m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Aguarico3196 km²
- Bassin de Río Cuyabeno2015 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1005.8 km²49.9% of basin
- 794.0 km²39.4% of basin
- 214.9 km²10.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
1859.69 km² overlap
Cuyabeno
IUCN VIFauna Production Reserve
1836.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 933 distinct species · 15 774 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 30 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
2 807mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,41
Runoff
2 147mm/an
PET
1 652mm
AET
1 638mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
14cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
86%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)