HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080000200
Bassin de Río Atrato
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 : Turbo, Unguía
Sub-basin area
1,5km²
Upstream area
35 996,7km²
Discharge
3 767,76m³/s
Mean elev.
6m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cuqué477 km²
- Bassin de Río Atrato347 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 0.9 km²63.1% of basin
- 0.4 km²25.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lago Azul los Manatìes
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
0.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,4°C
Annual rain
2 364mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
1 499mm/an
PET
1 497mm
AET
1 404mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
41cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)