HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080091180
Bassin de Río Sogamoso
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 7 administrative regions : Betulia, Girón, Lebríja, Los Santos, Piedecuesta +2
Sub-basin area
755,1km²
Upstream area
20 666,2km²
Discharge
496,64m³/s
Mean elev.
1 122m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Chicamocha2541 km²
- Bassin de Río Suárez590 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 201.8 km²26.8% of basin
- 172.4 km²22.9% of basin
- 170.0 km²22.6% of basin
- 118.6 km²15.8% of basin
- 47.7 km²6.3% of basin
- 41.1 km²5.5% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Serranía de los Yariguíes
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
293.52 km² overlap
Civil Society Nature Reserve
5.22 km² overlap
Integrated Management Regional Districts
2.59 km² overlap
La Montaña Mágica El Poleo
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.63 km² overlap
Páramo - La Floresta
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.44 km² overlap
Finca El Prado
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.18 km² overlap
Traganubes
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 550 distinct species · 76 674 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
1 382mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
784mm/an
PET
1 506mm
AET
1 112mm
Mean slope
17,2°
Water table
641cm
Forest
6%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
39%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)