HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080195550
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 across 2 countries : São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Yavaraté
Sub-basin area
146,7km²
Upstream area
32 617,8km²
Discharge
1 951,82m³/s
Mean elev.
131m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Vaupés744 km²
- Bassin de Río Vaupés237 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 102.3 km²70.0% of basin
- 43.8 km²30.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Alto Rio Negro
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
106.87 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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 554mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,54
Runoff
2 106mm/an
PET
1 628mm
AET
1 628mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
21cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
78%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)