HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080229970
Bassin de Río Verdeyacu
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 : Archidona, Latacunga, Mejía, Quijos, Quito +1
Sub-basin area
1 970,3km²
Upstream area
1 970,3km²
Discharge
96,26m³/s
Mean elev.
3 213m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1388.9 km²70.8% of basin
- 550.2 km²28.1% of basin
- 17.9 km²0.9% of basin
- 2.4 km²0.1% of basin
- 1.2 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Colonso Chalupas
IUCN IbBiological Reserve
752.43 km² overlap
Antisana
IUCN IINational Park
381.89 km² overlap
Cotopaxi
IUCN IINational Park
49.82 km² overlap
Llanganates
IUCN IINational Park
4.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 609 distinct species · 62 842 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Verdeyacu : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 51 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
9,8°C
Annual rain
1 544mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,25
Runoff
1 591mm/an
PET
1 062mm
AET
1 010mm
Mean slope
18,7°
Water table
584cm
Forest
44%
Crops
22%
Urban
0%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)