HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080178130
Bassin de Río Tunia o Macayá
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 1 administrative regions : Calamar
Sub-basin area
799,3km²
Upstream area
6 699,3km²
Discharge
326,7m³/s
Mean elev.
271m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Tunia o Macayá962 km²
- Bassin de Río Tunia o Macayá813 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
La Serranía de Chiribiquete
IUCN IINational Natural Park
795.73 km² overlap
Chiribiquete National Park – “The Maloca of the Jaguar”
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
253.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
22 distinct species · 82 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
2 376mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,29
Runoff
1 590mm/an
PET
1 677mm
AET
1 458mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
18cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)