HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080065620
Bassin · #6080065620
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 1 administrative regions : Chiriguaná
Sub-basin area
39,4km²
Upstream area
18 985,1km²
Discharge
310,44m³/s
Mean elev.
27m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cesar1515 km²
- Bassin de Arroyo San Antonio1401 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 39.3 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Integrated Management Regional Districts
39.25 km² overlap
Complejo Cenagoso de Zapatosa
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
11.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 7 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°
28,1°C
Annual rain
1 710mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
460mm/an
PET
1 808mm
AET
1 266mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
7cm
Forest
27%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)