HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080358040
Bassin de Río Chamaya
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 : Cutervo, Jaén
Sub-basin area
332,3km²
Upstream area
8 117,1km²
Discharge
120,85m³/s
Mean elev.
1 171m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Huayllabamba1171 km²
- Bassin de Río Huerto Blanco355 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 226.2 km²68.4% of basin
- CutervoCajamarca · Peru104.6 km²31.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bosques Secos Interandinos de Cutervo
IUCN Not ReportedRegional Conservation Area
36.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
262 distinct species · 2 806 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Chamaya : 25 espèces reliées par 47 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
21,8°C
Annual rain
748mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
594mm/an
PET
1 656mm
AET
632mm
Mean slope
17,9°
Water table
595cm
Forest
33%
Crops
11%
Urban
9%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)