HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080189190
Bassin de Río Caquetá
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 7 administrative regions : Piamonte, Puerto Guzmán, San Francisco, San Miguel de Mocoa, Santa Rosa +2
Sub-basin area
2 008,4km²
Upstream area
6 050km²
Discharge
389,06m³/s
Mean elev.
1 020m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caquetá680 km²
- Bassin de Río Caquetá70 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 748.8 km²37.5% of basin
- 718.2 km²35.9% of basin
- 319.6 km²16.0% of basin
- 171.9 km²8.6% of basin
- 31.4 km²1.6% of basin
- 6.1 km²0.3% of basin
- 3.5 km²0.2% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca Alta del Río Mocoa
IUCN VINational Protective Forest Reserves
371.78 km² overlap
National Natural Park
240.73 km² overlap
Serranía de los Churumbelos
IUCN VISoil Conservation Districts
34.99 km² overlap
Civil Society Nature Reserve
0.36 km² overlap
Mamakunapa
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.18 km² overlap
Paway
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 622 distinct species · 200 470 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 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 Caquetá : 11 espèces reliées par 14 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 11.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
21,7°C
Annual rain
3 571mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,55
Runoff
2 394mm/an
PET
1 525mm
AET
1 524mm
Mean slope
13,2°
Water table
352cm
Forest
51%
Crops
1%
Urban
1%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)