HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080182360
Bassin de Río Vaupés
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 : Miraflores
Sub-basin area
659,6km²
Upstream area
5 542,9km²
Discharge
284,16m³/s
Mean elev.
236m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Itilla2579 km²
- Bassin de Río Unilla2305 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 656.7 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 15 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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
2 590mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,36
Runoff
1 693mm/an
PET
1 663mm
AET
1 482mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
19cm
Forest
99%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)