HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080229720
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
461,7km²
Upstream area
116 062,7km²
Discharge
7 764,1m³/s
Mean elev.
146m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caquetá1252 km²
- Bassin de Quebrada El Sol1040 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 263.7 km²57.4% of basin
- 196.0 km²42.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cahuinarí
IUCN IINational Natural Park
187.60 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
39 distinct species · 53 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 969mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,46
Runoff
2 687mm/an
PET
1 612mm
AET
1 612mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
24cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
97%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)