HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080166200
Bassin de Caño Colorado
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 : Pana Pana, Puerto Colombia
Sub-basin area
692,7km²
Upstream area
692,7km²
Discharge
59,05m³/s
Mean elev.
155m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 525.0 km²76.1% of basin
- 164.7 km²23.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Puinawai
IUCN IaNature Reserve
178.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
35 distinct species · 101 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
3 378mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
2 608mm/an
PET
1 751mm
AET
1 730mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
27cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
35%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)