HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080264200
Bassin de Río Cañar
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 9 administrative regions : Alausí, Azogues, Biblián, Cañar, Chunchi +4
Sub-basin area
1 377,5km²
Upstream area
1 377,5km²
Discharge
28,61m³/s
Mean elev.
2 977m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- CañarCañar · Ecuador1216.4 km²88.7% of basin
- 63.1 km²4.6% of basin
- SuscalCañar · Ecuador48.4 km²3.5% of basin
- AzoguesCañar · Ecuador30.0 km²2.2% of basin
- La TroncalCañar · Ecuador9.5 km²0.7% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.1% of basin
- 1.1 km²0.1% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.1% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- Chunchi0.6 km² · 0.0%
2 intersecting protected areas
Sangay
IUCN IINational Park
224.79 km² overlap
Machángara Tomebamba
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
104.98 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 851 distinct species · 12 468 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Cañar : 23 espèces reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
11,4°C
Annual rain
887mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
649mm/an
PET
1 123mm
AET
725mm
Mean slope
17,7°
Water table
652cm
Forest
3%
Crops
21%
Urban
3%
Protected
25%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)