HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080873090
Bassin de Río Patuca
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 3 administrative regions : Catacamas, Patuca, Trojes
Sub-basin area
2 611,9km²
Upstream area
15 132,3km²
Discharge
149,51m³/s
Mean elev.
518m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Guayape485 km²
- Bassin de Río Guayambre273 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2059.6 km²79.1% of basin
- 517.2 km²19.9% of basin
- 25.7 km²1.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Patuca
IUCN VINational Park
1413.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
497 distinct species · 4 224 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 18 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 Patuca : 13 espèces reliées par 17 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
1 671mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
477mm/an
PET
1 682mm
AET
1 280mm
Mean slope
12,4°
Water table
440cm
Forest
97%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
54%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)