HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080103550
Bassin de Río Playón
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 : Güicán, Sácama, Tame
Sub-basin area
211,7km²
Upstream area
211,7km²
Discharge
10,53m³/s
Mean elev.
2 499m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 209.8 km²99.6% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.4% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
El Cocuy
IUCN IINational Natural Park
134.98 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
337 distinct species · 1 007 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°
14,0°C
Annual rain
1 978mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,32
Runoff
1 421mm/an
PET
1 246mm
AET
1 078mm
Mean slope
21,4°
Water table
669cm
Forest
62%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
65%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)