HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080866940
Bassin de Arroyo La Cañada
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 : Capital, Santa María
Sub-basin area
310,3km²
Upstream area
310,3km²
Discharge
0,69m³/s
Mean elev.
605m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 228.8 km²73.8% of basin
- 81.3 km²26.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
La Calera
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve of Defense
32.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 466 distinct species · 44 435 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Arroyo La Cañada : 30 espèces reliées par 49 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
16,9°C
Annual rain
667mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
71mm/an
PET
1 459mm
AET
565mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
313cm
Forest
6%
Crops
27%
Urban
20%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)