HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080068820
Bassin · #6080068820
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 : Girardot, Ricaurte
Sub-basin area
43,8km²
Upstream area
5 296,1km²
Discharge
62,79m³/s
Mean elev.
77m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Tinaco2139 km²
- Bassin · #6080067910403 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 33.2 km²76.1% of basin
- 10.4 km²23.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
1 395mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
426mm/an
PET
1 803mm
AET
1 118mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
60cm
Forest
17%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)