HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080195190
Bassin de Río Yarí
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 : Cartagena del Chairá, San Vicente del Caguán
Sub-basin area
78km²
Upstream area
6 330km²
Discharge
368,23m³/s
Mean elev.
220m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Yarí284 km²
- Bassin de Río Yarí81 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 57.7 km²74.3% of basin
- 20.0 km²25.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
La Serranía de Chiribiquete
IUCN IINational Natural Park
56.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
102 distinct species · 133 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
2 686mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,39
Runoff
1 915mm/an
PET
1 633mm
AET
1 511mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
14cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)