HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080224240
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 2 administrative regions : Mirití-Paraná, Puerto Santander
Sub-basin area
346km²
Upstream area
108 487km²
Discharge
6 989,21m³/s
Mean elev.
149m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080223540755 km²
- Bassin de Río Caquetá543 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 283.4 km²82.3% of basin
- 61.1 km²17.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
218 distinct species · 656 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
2 923mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,45
Runoff
2 134mm/an
PET
1 617mm
AET
1 599mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
29cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
21%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)