HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080092910
Bassin de Río Magdalena
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 : Barrancabermeja, Yondó
Sub-basin area
24,7km²
Upstream area
88 537,4km²
Discharge
2 870,81m³/s
Mean elev.
80m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Opón2046 km²
- Bassin de Río Magdalena498 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 20.6 km²83.7% of basin
- 4.0 km²16.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca Hidrográfica Rio Opón
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
22 distinct species · 100 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°
28,4°C
Annual rain
3 101mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
1 069mm/an
PET
1 769mm
AET
1 634mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
27cm
Forest
20%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)