HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080149320
Bassin de Río Cauca
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 8 administrative regions : Buenaventura, Buenos Aires, Caloto, Jamundí, López de Micay +3
Sub-basin area
1 438,6km²
Upstream area
5 994km²
Discharge
215,52m³/s
Mean elev.
1 352m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,6°C
Annual rain
2 271mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,26
Runoff
1 583mm/an
PET
1 624mm
AET
1 499mm
Mean slope
9,8°
Water table
321cm
Forest
8%
Crops
19%
Urban
3%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)