HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080187750
Bassin de Caño Macuje
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 : Calamar, Solano
Sub-basin area
919,4km²
Upstream area
919,6km²
Discharge
48,3m³/s
Mean elev.
275m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 914.5 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
La Serranía de Chiribiquete
IUCN IINational Natural Park
915.31 km² overlap
Chiribiquete National Park – “The Maloca of the Jaguar”
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
915.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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 489mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,34
Runoff
1 665mm/an
PET
1 652mm
AET
1 466mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
56cm
Forest
99%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
59%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)