HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080111430
Bassin de Río Meta
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 : La Primavera, Paz de Ariporo
Sub-basin area
81,6km²
Upstream area
2 904,5km²
Discharge
125,24m³/s
Mean elev.
109m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080109480980 km²
- Bassin · #6080109510410 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 81.1 km²99.8% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
El Tirriagal
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
12.89 km² overlap
La Chula
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
1.66 km² overlap
Laguna la Primavera
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 420 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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
2 190mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,23
Runoff
1 525mm/an
PET
1 683mm
AET
1 321mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
9cm
Forest
14%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)