HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080884570
Bassin de Canal de Panamá
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 4 administrative regions : Colón, La Chorrera, Lago Gatún
Sub-basin area
234,7km²
Upstream area
2 054,8km²
Discharge
89,46m³/s
Mean elev.
79m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Chagres561 km²
- Bassin de Canal de Panamá305 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 116.7 km²49.9% of basin
- Lago GatúnColón · Panama44.0 km²18.8% of basin
- 41.6 km²17.8% of basin
- 31.5 km²13.5% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Soberanía
IUCN IINational Park
73.68 km² overlap
Barro Colorado
IUCN IIINatural Monument
41.57 km² overlap
Islas Advent, Zorra y Juan Gallego
IUCN Not ReportedNot defined
5.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 268 distinct species · 113 292 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 Canal de Panamá : 18 espèces reliées par 15 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
2 616mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,46
Runoff
1 353mm/an
PET
1 402mm
AET
1 243mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
147cm
Forest
55%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
63%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)