HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080178560
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
79,6km²
Upstream area
7 191,3km²
Discharge
351,54m³/s
Mean elev.
268m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Tunia o Macayá799 km²
- Bassin de Río Tunia o Macayá413 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
La Serranía de Chiribiquete
IUCN IINational Natural Park
79.22 km² overlap
Chiribiquete National Park – “The Maloca of the Jaguar”
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
17.67 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
2 419mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,31
Runoff
1 606mm/an
PET
1 672mm
AET
1 459mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
113cm
Forest
97%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
22%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)