HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080124100
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 : Orocué, Puerto Gaitán
Sub-basin area
23,2km²
Upstream area
53 872,2km²
Discharge
2 853,19m³/s
Mean elev.
145m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Meta2269 km²
- Bassin de Río Cravo Sur41 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 20.4 km²88.4% of basin
- 2.7 km²11.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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
2 022mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
1 537mm/an
PET
1 668mm
AET
1 294mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
19cm
Forest
49%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)