HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080180710
Bassin de Río Caquetá
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 5 administrative regions : Bolívar, La Vega, San Agustín, San Sebastián, Santa Rosa
Sub-basin area
1 558,9km²
Upstream area
1 558,9km²
Discharge
52,67m³/s
Mean elev.
2 460m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1236.9 km²79.7% of basin
- 227.0 km²14.6% of basin
- 85.0 km²5.5% of basin
- 3.0 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
El Aleton
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
104.14 km² overlap
National Natural Park
99.29 km² overlap
Puracé
IUCN IINational Natural Park
33.29 km² overlap
Regional Natural Parks
13.29 km² overlap
Serrania la Vieja
IUCN VIRegional Protective Forest Reserves
5.58 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrográfica del Río San Jorge
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
0.78 km² overlap
Paraíso Bombonas
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.22 km² overlap
Cañón De Los Guácharos
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
951 distinct species · 44 413 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Caquetá : 17 espèces reliées par 17 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
13,9°C
Annual rain
1 903mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,35
Runoff
1 284mm/an
PET
1 223mm
AET
1 210mm
Mean slope
18,6°
Water table
549cm
Forest
75%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)