HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080181990
Bassin de Río Caguán
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 : Cartagena del Chairá, Puerto Rico, San Vicente del Caguán
Sub-basin area
769,7km²
Upstream area
5 901,2km²
Discharge
250,71m³/s
Mean elev.
251m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caguán428 km²
- Bassin de Río Caguán271 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 618.3 km²80.7% of basin
- 134.4 km²17.5% of basin
- 13.6 km²1.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 10 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
2 719mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,38
Runoff
2 004mm/an
PET
1 678mm
AET
1 570mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
45cm
Forest
4%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)