HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080097270
Bassin de Río Atrato
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 : Bojayá, Vigía del Fuerte
Sub-basin area
101,8km²
Upstream area
15 557,2km²
Discharge
2 052,72m³/s
Mean elev.
29m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Atrato3517 km²
- Bassin de Río Murrí375 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 82.1 km²81.0% of basin
- 19.3 km²19.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
97 distinct species · 144 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
5 473mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,69
Runoff
3 810mm/an
PET
1 697mm
AET
1 697mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
25cm
Forest
69%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)