HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080266510
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 2 administrative regions : La Troncal, Naranjal
Sub-basin area
65,4km²
Upstream area
2 334km²
Discharge
44,98m³/s
Mean elev.
15m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Miguir437 km²
- Bassin de Río Cañar160 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 65.0 km²99.9% of basin
- La TroncalCañar · Ecuador0.1 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
314 distinct species · 26 553 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 : 21 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 39 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
25,5°C
Annual rain
1 109mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
584mm/an
PET
1 641mm
AET
874mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
9cm
Forest
23%
Crops
10%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)