HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080196210
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
76,3km²
Upstream area
32 847,3km²
Discharge
1 967,14m³/s
Mean elev.
126m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Vaupés153 km²
- Bassin de Río Vaupés147 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 39.1 km²51.5% of basin
- 36.8 km²48.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Alto Rio Negro
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
31.43 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 8 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 587mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,55
Runoff
2 140mm/an
PET
1 620mm
AET
1 620mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
34cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
67%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)