HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080216120
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 : La Chorrera, Puerto Alegria, Solano
Sub-basin area
395,7km²
Upstream area
58 841km²
Discharge
3 944,67m³/s
Mean elev.
188m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caquetá2600 km²
- Bassin de Río Nasayá829 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 214.1 km²54.3% of basin
- 100.0 km²25.4% of basin
- 79.9 km²20.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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 857mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
2 160mm/an
PET
1 621mm
AET
1 569mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
14cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)