HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080238530
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 Pedrera, Mirití-Paraná, Puerto Arica
Sub-basin area
634,8km²
Upstream area
134 341,5km²
Discharge
9 454,23m³/s
Mean elev.
102m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cahuinharí881 km²
- Bassin de Río Caquetá303 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 279.3 km²44.2% of basin
- 233.4 km²36.9% of basin
- 119.3 km²18.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cahuinarí
IUCN IINational Natural Park
148.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
103 distinct species · 1 200 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 9 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Caquetá : 8 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 6 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 16.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,0°C
Annual rain
3 077mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
2 666mm/an
PET
1 611mm
AET
1 611mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
15cm
Forest
92%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
87%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)