HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080261840
Bassin de Río Putumayo
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : El Encanto, Maynas, Puerto Arica
Sub-basin area
1 574,9km²
Upstream area
76 876,4km²
Discharge
4 307,42m³/s
Mean elev.
118m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Igará Paraná1496 km²
- Bassin de Río Putumayo559 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 810.1 km²51.7% of basin
- 757.3 km²48.3% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Medio Putumayo Algodón
IUCN Not ReportedRegional Conservation Area
38.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
421 distinct species · 783 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 Putumayo : 27 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 30 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.3%, 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
2 931mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,44
Runoff
1 792mm/an
PET
1 635mm
AET
1 635mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
13cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)