HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080867820
Bassin de Río de Los Sauces
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 5 administrative regions : Calamuchita, Pocho, San Alberto, San Javier, Santa María
Sub-basin area
1 103,4km²
Upstream area
1 706,5km²
Discharge
1,86m³/s
Mean elev.
738m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Panaholma434 km²
- Bassin de Río Mina Clavero170 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 594.5 km²53.9% of basin
- 326.1 km²29.6% of basin
- 177.7 km²16.1% of basin
- 4.2 km²0.4% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Pampa de Achala
IUCN VIProvincial Water Reserve
87.04 km² overlap
Quebrada del Condorito
IUCN VINational Reserve
0.62 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 152 distinct species · 38 672 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 de Los Sauces : 21 espèces reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.6%, 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°
17,3°C
Annual rain
574mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
26mm/an
PET
1 474mm
AET
486mm
Mean slope
4,1°
Water table
259cm
Forest
9%
Crops
8%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)