HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080237780
Bassin de Río Cahuinharí
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 : Puerto Arica, Puerto Santander
Sub-basin area
585,9km²
Upstream area
585,9km²
Discharge
45,71m³/s
Mean elev.
130m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 582.0 km²99.8% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cahuinarí
IUCN IINational Natural Park
583.29 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,0°C
Annual rain
3 029mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,47
Runoff
2 439mm/an
PET
1 616mm
AET
1 616mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
8cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)