HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080128690
Bassin de Río Cucurrupí
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 4 administrative regions : Bolívar, El Litoral del San Juan, Istmina, Sipí
Sub-basin area
839,2km²
Upstream area
839,6km²
Discharge
118,49m³/s
Mean elev.
234m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 404.6 km²48.4% of basin
- 404.2 km²48.4% of basin
- Bolívar20.8 km²2.5% of basin
- 5.9 km²0.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Páramo del Duende
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
0.43 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 29 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
5 009mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,64
Runoff
4 271mm/an
PET
1 532mm
AET
1 510mm
Mean slope
6,5°
Water table
186cm
Forest
89%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)