HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080249870
Bassin de Río Cebadas
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 : Alausí, Guamote, Morona, Pablo Sexto
Sub-basin area
703,4km²
Upstream area
703,4km²
Discharge
7,99m³/s
Mean elev.
3 744m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Guamote532.8 km²76.1% of basin
- 166.0 km²23.7% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.2% of basin
- Pablo Sexto0.2 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sangay
IUCN IINational Park
138.63 km² overlap
Ichubamba Yasepan
IUCN VIPrivate Protected Area
45.11 km² overlap
Sangay National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
24.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
520 distinct species · 1 953 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Cebadas : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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
671mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
904mm/an
PET
983mm
AET
571mm
Mean slope
16,5°
Water table
636cm
Forest
2%
Crops
22%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)