HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080185130
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
526,7km²
Upstream area
11 932,4km²
Discharge
618,7m³/s
Mean elev.
242m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caguán770 km²
- Bassin de Río Guayas134 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 331.5 km²63.2% of basin
- 192.3 km²36.7% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
565 distinct species · 5 996 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 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 Caguán : 13 espèces reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
2 767mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,40
Runoff
2 097mm/an
PET
1 648mm
AET
1 543mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
48cm
Forest
12%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)