HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080226900
Bassin de Río Yasuní
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 across 2 countries : Aguarico, Maynas, Orellana
Sub-basin area
3 425,2km²
Upstream area
3 425,5km²
Discharge
236,66m³/s
Mean elev.
239m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 3391.9 km²99.5% of basin
- 17.0 km²0.5% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Yasuní
IUCN IINational Park
2283.20 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
834.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 032 distinct species · 26 298 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Yasuní : 22 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.9%, 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
2 915mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
2 232mm/an
PET
1 653mm
AET
1 648mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
32cm
Forest
98%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
64%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)