HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080078150
Bassin de Río Cauca
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 5 administrative regions : Ayapel, Caucasia, Cáceres, La Apartada, Nechí
Sub-basin area
723,5km²
Upstream area
41 842,2km²
Discharge
1 469,88m³/s
Mean elev.
55m
Administrative coverage
Species present
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
3 093mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,41
Runoff
1 135mm/an
PET
1 778mm
AET
1 525mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
51cm
Forest
7%
Crops
7%
Urban
1%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)