HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080199920
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 3 administrative regions : Cartagena del Chairá, San Vicente del Caguán, Solano
Sub-basin area
402,1km²
Upstream area
12 425,4km²
Discharge
720,14m³/s
Mean elev.
217m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Ventura1213 km²
- Bassin de Río Yarí52 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 253.3 km²63.3% of basin
- 146.8 km²36.7% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
La Serranía de Chiribiquete
IUCN IINational Natural Park
400.28 km² overlap
Chiribiquete National Park – “The Maloca of the Jaguar”
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
150.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
2 703mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,40
Runoff
1 992mm/an
PET
1 630mm
AET
1 513mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
7cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)