HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080167490
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
988,1km²
Upstream area
10 002,3km²
Discharge
492m³/s
Mean elev.
191m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Inírida692 km²
- Bassin de Río Inírida331 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 748.7 km²76.1% of basin
- 235.0 km²23.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nukak
IUCN IaNature Reserve
234.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
40 distinct species · 106 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
2 645mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
1 524mm/an
PET
1 673mm
AET
1 474mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
40cm
Forest
97%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
24%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)