HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080230380
Bassin de Río Yanayacu/Huapante
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 4 administrative regions : Latacunga, Salcedo, Santiago de Pillaro, Tena
Sub-basin area
411,7km²
Upstream area
411,7km²
Discharge
17,88m³/s
Mean elev.
3 662m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 262.5 km²64.0% of basin
- 143.6 km²35.0% of basin
- 2.5 km²0.6% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Llanganates
IUCN IINational Park
260.91 km² overlap
Complejo LLanganti
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
156.71 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
461 distinct species · 2 384 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Yanayacu/Huapante : 34 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 44 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.6%, 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°
7,4°C
Annual rain
893mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
1 415mm/an
PET
942mm
AET
738mm
Mean slope
11,4°
Water table
433cm
Forest
1%
Crops
25%
Urban
0%
Protected
72%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)