HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080264310
Bassin de Río Patul
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 : Cañar, Cuenca, Naranjal
Sub-basin area
294,7km²
Upstream area
294,8km²
Discharge
6,31m³/s
Mean elev.
2 409m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 194.2 km²66.2% of basin
- CañarCañar · Ecuador97.0 km²33.0% of basin
- 2.3 km²0.8% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Machángara Tomebamba
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
25.01 km² overlap
Cajas
IUCN IINational Park
1.75 km² overlap
Parque Nacional Cajas
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
1.75 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
280 distinct species · 875 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Patul : 25 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 43 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
14,2°C
Annual rain
1 003mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
645mm/an
PET
1 236mm
AET
790mm
Mean slope
22,0°
Water table
787cm
Forest
6%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
24%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)