HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080216950
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
337,8km²
Upstream area
59 443km²
Discharge
3 985,49m³/s
Mean elev.
184m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caquetá396 km²
- Bassin de Caño Tirimoní264 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 220.1 km²65.5% of basin
- 90.1 km²26.8% of basin
- 26.0 km²7.7% 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
2 844mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
2 140mm/an
PET
1 621mm
AET
1 561mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
9cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)