HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080224870
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 : Aguarico, Orellana, Shushufindi
Sub-basin area
1 248,9km²
Upstream area
22 891,8km²
Discharge
1 608,74m³/s
Mean elev.
219m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Napo1115 km²
- Bassin de Río Pañayacu877 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 762.3 km²61.3% of basin
- 362.6 km²29.2% of basin
- 118.5 km²9.5% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
1243.29 km² overlap
Cuyabeno
IUCN VIFauna Production Reserve
9.63 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 888 distinct species · 29 216 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 : 16 espèces reliées par 21 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
25,5°C
Annual rain
2 861mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,42
Runoff
2 211mm/an
PET
1 654mm
AET
1 646mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
14cm
Forest
95%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)