HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080201330
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 3 administrative regions : Puerto Asís, Puerto Leguízamo, Solano
Sub-basin area
1 794,4km²
Upstream area
1 794,4km²
Discharge
113,52m³/s
Mean elev.
237m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1687.1 km²94.4% of basin
- 99.2 km²5.6% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
La Paya
IUCN IINational Natural Park
936.21 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 10 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 001mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,46
Runoff
2 011mm/an
PET
1 626mm
AET
1 604mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
16cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
53%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)