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
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
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)