HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080254410
Bassin de Río Pastaza
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 6 administrative regions : Huamboya, Morona, Pablo Sexto, Palora, Pastaza +1
Sub-basin area
1 129,2km²
Upstream area
13 812,3km²
Discharge
611,46m³/s
Mean elev.
988m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Sangay1499 km²
- Bassin de Río Pastaza854 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Huamboya550.3 km²49.0% of basin
- 207.6 km²18.5% of basin
- 151.1 km²13.4% of basin
- Taisha128.4 km²11.4% of basin
- Pablo Sexto86.8 km²7.7% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sangay National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
55.98 km² overlap
Sangay
IUCN IINational Park
51.75 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 064 distinct species · 9 913 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 Pastaza : 18 espèces reliées par 14 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.4%, 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°
21,6°C
Annual rain
3 300mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,53
Runoff
2 405mm/an
PET
1 537mm
AET
1 536mm
Mean slope
5,2°
Water table
149cm
Forest
85%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)