HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080237740
Bassin de Quebrada Guilles
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 5 administrative regions : Baños de Agua Santa, Guano, Penipe, Quero, San Pedro de Pelileo
Sub-basin area
149,8km²
Upstream area
3 576,4km²
Discharge
73,38m³/s
Mean elev.
3 094m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Chambo276 km²
- Bassin de Río Puela230 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 47.3 km²31.7% of basin
- Guano45.0 km²30.2% of basin
- Penipe33.6 km²22.5% of basin
- Quero21.8 km²14.6% of basin
- Baños de Agua Santa1.4 km²0.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sangay
IUCN IINational Park
6.28 km² overlap
Sangay National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
5.63 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
261 distinct species · 511 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 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 Quebrada Guilles : 14 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
11,7°C
Annual rain
814mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
1 300mm/an
PET
1 197mm
AET
688mm
Mean slope
18,5°
Water table
635cm
Forest
32%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)