HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080091020
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 21 administrative regions : Bello, Belmira, Briceño, Buriticá, Cañasgordas +16
Sub-basin area
2 013,9km²
Upstream area
35 558,2km²
Discharge
1 050,38m³/s
Mean elev.
1 587m
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°
20,1°C
Annual rain
2 047mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,22
Runoff
1 599mm/an
PET
1 509mm
AET
1 311mm
Mean slope
24,1°
Water table
708cm
Forest
30%
Crops
6%
Urban
1%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)