HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080083370
Bassin de Río Nechí
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 3 administrative regions : Caucasia, El Bagre, Zaragoza
Sub-basin area
11,8km²
Upstream area
11 982,5km²
Discharge
563,14m³/s
Mean elev.
46m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Quebrada Vijagual547 km²
- Bassin de Río Nechí18 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 7.0 km²59.8% of basin
- 4.6 km²39.5% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
32 distinct species · 40 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°
28,9°C
Annual rain
4 266mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,58
Runoff
1 163mm/an
PET
1 811mm
AET
1 708mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
31cm
Forest
7%
Crops
10%
Urban
49%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)