HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080125250
Bassin de Río Garrapatas
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 : Medio San Juan, Sipí
Sub-basin area
53,8km²
Upstream area
2 117km²
Discharge
176,08m³/s
Mean elev.
87m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Garrapatas296 km²
- Bassin de Quebrada Sorobiatá240 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 53.1 km²99.1% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
5 756mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,73
Runoff
4 571mm/an
PET
1 556mm
AET
1 556mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
112cm
Forest
91%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)