HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080161960
Bassin de Río Duda
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 : La Macarena, La Uribe, Mesetas, Vista Hermosa
Sub-basin area
255,1km²
Upstream area
3 927,2km²
Discharge
146,67m³/s
Mean elev.
500m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Santo Domingo700 km²
- Bassin de Río Duda587 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 244.9 km²96.4% of basin
- 7.6 km²3.0% of basin
- 1.5 km²0.6% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sierra de la Macarena
IUCN IINational Natural Park
243.04 km² overlap
Tinigua
IUCN IINational Natural Park
7.76 km² overlap
Área de Manejo Especial La Macarena
IUCN Not ApplicableSpecial Management Area
3.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
2 928mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
1 387mm/an
PET
1 673mm
AET
1 539mm
Mean slope
6,6°
Water table
199cm
Forest
92%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)