HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080170390
Bassin de Quebrada Méndez
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 7 administrative regions : Algeciras, El Doncello, El Paujíl, Garzón, Gigante +2
Sub-basin area
776,6km²
Upstream area
776,7km²
Discharge
37,23m³/s
Mean elev.
1 739m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 378.9 km²49.0% of basin
- 240.8 km²31.1% of basin
- 97.2 km²12.6% of basin
- 37.0 km²4.8% of basin
- 9.6 km²1.2% of basin
- 9.3 km²1.2% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Miraflores Picachos
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
249.48 km² overlap
Regional Natural Parks
2.20 km² overlap
Distrito de Conservación de Suelos y Aguas del Caquetá
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation District
1.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 19 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°
18,2°C
Annual rain
1 872mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,27
Runoff
1 511mm/an
PET
1 352mm
AET
1 290mm
Mean slope
17,6°
Water table
523cm
Forest
70%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)