HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080000710
Bassin de Arroyo León
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 6 administrative regions : Baranoa, Barranquilla, Galapa, Malambo, Puerto Colombia +1
Sub-basin area
254,5km²
Upstream area
254,6km²
Discharge
1,36m³/s
Mean elev.
80m
Administrative coverage
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 93.0 km²36.7% of basin
- 86.7 km²34.2% of basin
- 40.8 km²16.1% of basin
- 16.8 km²6.6% of basin
- 16.0 km²6.3% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sitio Ramsar Delta Estuarino del Rio Magdalena, Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta (Sitio Ramsar SDERM-CGSM)
IUCN Not ApplicableWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 031 distinct species · 46 542 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,7°C
Annual rain
894mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
168mm/an
PET
1 579mm
AET
756mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
227cm
Forest
0%
Crops
7%
Urban
38%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)