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
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
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)