HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080069380
Bassin de Caño Cucharal
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 : San Benito Abad, Sucre
Sub-basin area
153,7km²
Upstream area
15 764,2km²
Discharge
435,74m³/s
Mean elev.
12m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Caño Cucharal748 km²
- Bassin · #608007011044 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 113.7 km²74.3% of basin
- 39.3 km²25.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca Hidrográfica Rio San Jorge
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
153.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 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°
27,9°C
Annual rain
2 098mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
379mm/an
PET
1 777mm
AET
1 350mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
16cm
Forest
29%
Crops
10%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)