HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080186400
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 2 administrative regions : Carurú, Miraflores
Sub-basin area
121,2km²
Upstream area
10 907,1km²
Discharge
590,21m³/s
Mean elev.
218m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Caño Arara904 km²
- Bassin de Río Vaupés292 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 85.4 km²70.8% of basin
- 35.2 km²29.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
2 846mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
1 888mm/an
PET
1 636mm
AET
1 553mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
11cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)