HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080250650
Bassin de Río Chimbo
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 8 administrative regions : Ambato, Chillanes, Chimbo, Colta, Guano +3
Sub-basin area
1 113,6km²
Upstream area
1 113,6km²
Discharge
32,05m³/s
Mean elev.
3 314m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 655.9 km²59.2% of basin
- 153.5 km²13.8% of basin
- 138.4 km²12.5% of basin
- 74.2 km²6.7% of basin
- Riobamba59.8 km²5.4% of basin
- 19.5 km²1.8% of basin
- Ambato6.8 km²0.6% of basin
- Guano0.5 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chimborazo
IUCN VIFauna Production Reserve
136.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
955 distinct species · 4 936 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Chimbo : 28 espèces reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 6.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
9,7°C
Annual rain
865mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
898mm/an
PET
1 098mm
AET
720mm
Mean slope
16,8°
Water table
611cm
Forest
5%
Crops
18%
Urban
3%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)