HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080055450
Bassin de Río Chagres
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 : Colón, Lago Gatún
Sub-basin area
53,4km²
Upstream area
3 391,9km²
Discharge
142,54m³/s
Mean elev.
50m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Canal de Panamá882 km²
- Bassin · #70808845501 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 45.3 km²85.2% of basin
- Lago GatúnColón · Panama7.7 km²14.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
San Lorenzo
IUCN VProtected Forest and Landscape
35.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 298 distinct species · 11 780 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Chagres : 17 espèces reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
3 157mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,57
Runoff
1 408mm/an
PET
1 344mm
AET
1 271mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
171cm
Forest
81%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)