HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080098500
Bassin de Río Ele
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 3 administrative regions : Arauca, Cravo Norte, Puerto Rondón
Sub-basin area
75,7km²
Upstream area
2 610,7km²
Discharge
77,7m³/s
Mean elev.
117m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Ele1321 km²
- Bassin de Río Lipa1215 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Puerto RondónArauca · Colombia41.9 km²55.7% of basin
- 30.5 km²40.4% of basin
- Cravo NorteArauca · Colombia3.0 km²3.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
25 distinct species · 32 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°
26,8°C
Annual rain
1 947mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,14
Runoff
1 039mm/an
PET
1 669mm
AET
1 250mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
5cm
Forest
47%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)