HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080270380
Bassin de Río Upano
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 7 administrative regions : Alausí, Guamote, Logroño, Morona, Pablo Sexto +2
Sub-basin area
3 911,4km²
Upstream area
3 911,4km²
Discharge
174,37m³/s
Mean elev.
1 860m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2184.9 km²56.1% of basin
- 1048.1 km²26.9% of basin
- Logroño328.3 km²8.4% of basin
- 315.1 km²8.1% of basin
- Guamote7.0 km²0.2% of basin
- Pablo Sexto6.7 km²0.2% of basin
- 3.9 km²0.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sangay
IUCN IINational Park
1430.64 km² overlap
Sangay National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
467.96 km² overlap
Ichubamba Yasepan
IUCN VIPrivate Protected Area
2.74 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 066 distinct species · 60 583 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 18 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 Upano : 13 espèces reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
17,8°C
Annual rain
2 417mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
1 451mm/an
PET
1 435mm
AET
1 395mm
Mean slope
16,1°
Water table
470cm
Forest
65%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
74%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)