HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080165790
Bassin de Río Inírida
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 : El Retorno, San José del Guaviare
Sub-basin area
855,2km²
Upstream area
5 986,8km²
Discharge
301,4m³/s
Mean elev.
201m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Caño Grande2138 km²
- Bassin de Río Inírida348 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 851.2 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nukak
IUCN IaNature Reserve
389.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 26 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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
2 548mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,34
Runoff
1 542mm/an
PET
1 690mm
AET
1 471mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
48cm
Forest
96%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
46%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)