HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080276760
Bassin de Río Zamora
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 across 2 countries : Condorcanqui, Gualaquiza, Limón Indanza, San Juan Bosco
Sub-basin area
1 428,5km²
Upstream area
11 387km²
Discharge
361,82m³/s
Mean elev.
1 405m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Zamora1689 km²
- Bassin de Río Léon Urcu1494 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- San Juan Bosco603.0 km²42.4% of basin
- 522.7 km²36.7% of basin
- Gualaquiza296.5 km²20.8% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Territorio del Pueblo Shuar Arutam
IUCN Not AssignedLiving Forest of Sarayaku (Non-state protected area)
566.48 km² overlap
Siete Iglesias
IUCN VIEcological Area of Conservation
108.78 km² overlap
El Quimi
IUCN IbBiological Reserve
3.76 km² overlap
Rio Negro Sopladora
IUCN IINational Park
2.30 km² overlap
National Park
0.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 354 distinct species · 64 681 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 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 Zamora : 14 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
20,5°C
Annual rain
2 503mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,36
Runoff
1 139mm/an
PET
1 560mm
AET
1 532mm
Mean slope
18,9°
Water table
552cm
Forest
52%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)