HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080230120
Bassin de Río Mulatos
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 7 administrative regions : Baños de Agua Santa, Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola, Latacunga, Patate, Salcedo +2
Sub-basin area
965,3km²
Upstream area
965,6km²
Discharge
55,85m³/s
Mean elev.
2 971m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 951.5 km²99.0% of basin
- Baños de Agua Santa3.3 km²0.3% of basin
- 2.7 km²0.3% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.1% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.1% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.1% of basin
- Patate0.0 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Llanganates
IUCN IINational Park
924.77 km² overlap
Complejo LLanganti
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
69.92 km² overlap
Colonso Chalupas
IUCN IbBiological Reserve
3.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 311 distinct species · 6 546 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 Mulatos : 20 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
11,4°C
Annual rain
1 464mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,14
Runoff
1 829mm/an
PET
1 140mm
AET
1 006mm
Mean slope
21,9°
Water table
712cm
Forest
54%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
91%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)