HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080186970
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Mitú, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Yavaraté
Sub-basin area
166,6km²
Upstream area
166,8km²
Discharge
12,09m³/s
Mean elev.
184m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 160.8 km²96.9% of basin
- 5.1 km²3.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Alto Rio Negro
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
160.51 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
25,5°C
Annual rain
3 437mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,53
Runoff
2 282mm/an
PET
1 630mm
AET
1 629mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
9cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
97%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)