HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080240270
Bassin de Río Chambo
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 : Chambo, Guano, Pablo Sexto, Penipe, Riobamba
Sub-basin area
276,1km²
Upstream area
3 195,9km²
Discharge
60,51m³/s
Mean elev.
3 403m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Guano391 km²
- Bassin de Río Chambo84 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Penipe107.1 km²39.0% of basin
- Riobamba104.3 km²37.9% of basin
- Guano43.5 km²15.8% of basin
- Chambo17.8 km²6.5% of basin
- Pablo Sexto2.2 km²0.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sangay
IUCN IINational Park
15.92 km² overlap
Sangay National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
13.60 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 567 distinct species · 4 084 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Chambo : 27 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 6.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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
825mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
1 307mm/an
PET
1 108mm
AET
697mm
Mean slope
20,7°
Water table
759cm
Forest
29%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
21%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)