HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080216330
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 4 administrative regions : La Chorrera, Puerto Alegria, Puerto Leguízamo, Solano
Sub-basin area
2 599,5km²
Upstream area
57 616,4km²
Discharge
3 860,72m³/s
Mean elev.
190m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caguán615 km²
- Bassin de Río Caquetá127 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2144.3 km²82.9% of basin
- 443.6 km²17.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
La Serranía de Chiribiquete
IUCN IINational Natural Park
9.19 km² overlap
Chiribiquete National Park – “The Maloca of the Jaguar”
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
9.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 18 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
2 900mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,44
Runoff
2 099mm/an
PET
1 617mm
AET
1 550mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
9cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)