HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080143260
Bassin de Río Riachón
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 : Cabrera, Colombia, Dolores, Villarrica
Sub-basin area
266,5km²
Upstream area
266,5km²
Discharge
8,86m³/s
Mean elev.
2 470m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 124.5 km²46.9% of basin
- 119.7 km²45.1% of basin
- 20.8 km²7.8% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Páramo de las Oseras
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
73.20 km² overlap
Bosque de Galilea
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
53.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 23 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°
13,8°C
Annual rain
1 339mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
1 051mm/an
PET
1 102mm
AET
986mm
Mean slope
12,7°
Water table
390cm
Forest
37%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)