HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080297010
Bassin de Río Salado
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 6 administrative regions : Atahualpa, Chilla, Piñas, Portovelo, Saraguro +1
Sub-basin area
535,8km²
Upstream area
535,8km²
Discharge
7,99m³/s
Mean elev.
1 964m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 306.3 km²57.4% of basin
- 108.3 km²20.3% of basin
- 36.4 km²6.8% of basin
- SaraguroLoja · Ecuador35.5 km²6.7% of basin
- 30.8 km²5.8% of basin
- 16.1 km²3.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 324 distinct species · 7 849 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Salado : 23 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.3%, 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°
17,5°C
Annual rain
1 118mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
456mm/an
PET
1 434mm
AET
866mm
Mean slope
20,2°
Water table
684cm
Forest
1%
Crops
14%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)