HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080178300
Bassin de Río Patía
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 3 administrative regions : El Peñol, Los Andes, Policarpa
Sub-basin area
29,7km²
Upstream area
8 819km²
Discharge
238,28m³/s
Mean elev.
1 111m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Juanambú2094 km²
- Bassin de Río Patía1957 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 23.1 km²78.0% of basin
- 6.5 km²22.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Integrated Management Regional Districts
6.85 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
21,8°C
Annual rain
1 692mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
1 519mm/an
PET
1 553mm
AET
1 311mm
Mean slope
26,0°
Water table
608cm
Forest
0%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)