HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080158120
Bassin de Río Leiva
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 : La Uribe, San Vicente del Caguán
Sub-basin area
998,9km²
Upstream area
999km²
Discharge
25,22m³/s
Mean elev.
1 322m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 940.9 km²94.6% of basin
- 53.6 km²5.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Cordillera de los Picachos
IUCN IINational Natural Park
994.38 km² overlap
Área de Manejo Especial La Macarena
IUCN Not ApplicableSpecial Management Area
0.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
24 distinct species · 31 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°
20,5°C
Annual rain
1 980mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,28
Runoff
860mm/an
PET
1 435mm
AET
1 345mm
Mean slope
18,4°
Water table
618cm
Forest
67%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)