HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080202320
Bassin de Río Caguán
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 1 administrative regions : Cartagena del Chairá
Sub-basin area
462,6km²
Upstream area
462,6km²
Discharge
29,73m³/s
Mean elev.
219m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 460.5 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
La Serranía de Chiribiquete
IUCN IINational Natural Park
13.82 km² overlap
Chiribiquete National Park – “The Maloca of the Jaguar”
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
13.82 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
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,0°C
Annual rain
2 815mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
2 023mm/an
PET
1 617mm
AET
1 520mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
17cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)