HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080204600
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 2 administrative regions : Cartagena del Chairá, Solano
Sub-basin area
281,1km²
Upstream area
20 289,9km²
Discharge
1 168,26m³/s
Mean elev.
201m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caguán278 km²
- Bassin de Río Caguán145 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 276.1 km²98.7% of basin
- 3.7 km²1.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 6 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
2 871mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,44
Runoff
1 946mm/an
PET
1 615mm
AET
1 527mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
13cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)