HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080186250
Bassin de Caño Bacatí
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 2 administrative regions : Carurú, Miraflores
Sub-basin area
1 598,1km²
Upstream area
1 598,1km²
Discharge
88,6m³/s
Mean elev.
244m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1205.9 km²75.8% of basin
- 385.1 km²24.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nukak
IUCN IaNature Reserve
960.92 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
41 distinct species · 45 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
2 808mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,42
Runoff
1 753mm/an
PET
1 642mm
AET
1 522mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
33cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
60%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)