HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080090330
Bassin de Río Sucio
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 : Belén de Bajirá, El Carmen del Darién
Sub-basin area
477,1km²
Upstream area
21 766,6km²
Discharge
2 706,88m³/s
Mean elev.
18m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Atrato2038 km²
- Bassin de Río Atrato572 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 442.4 km²93.1% of basin
- 32.6 km²6.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 18 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
3 854mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,57
Runoff
2 583mm/an
PET
1 654mm
AET
1 582mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
18cm
Forest
35%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)