HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080218290
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
415,9km²
Upstream area
60 076,2km²
Discharge
4 028,02m³/s
Mean elev.
187m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caquetá338 km²
- Bassin de Caño Buenos Aires217 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 350.9 km²84.7% of basin
- 60.7 km²14.7% of basin
- 2.5 km²0.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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 833mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
2 117mm/an
PET
1 622mm
AET
1 574mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
16cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)