HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080276620
Bassin de Río Yunganza
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 4 administrative regions : Limón Indanza, Logroño, Santiago, Tiwintza
Sub-basin area
761,4km²
Upstream area
11 118,5km²
Discharge
336,63m³/s
Mean elev.
1 156m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Upano3911 km²
- Bassin de Río Paute10 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 474.5 km²62.6% of basin
- 224.6 km²29.6% of basin
- 56.0 km²7.4% of basin
- Logroño3.0 km²0.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Territorio del Pueblo Shuar Arutam
IUCN Not AssignedLiving Forest of Sarayaku (Non-state protected area)
30.78 km² overlap
Rio Negro Sopladora
IUCN IINational Park
3.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 421 distinct species · 8 600 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Yunganza : 20 espèces reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
21,6°C
Annual rain
2 624mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,39
Runoff
1 148mm/an
PET
1 580mm
AET
1 568mm
Mean slope
16,0°
Water table
503cm
Forest
66%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)