Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080240070

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

Pfafstetter: 62294565

Sub-basin area

2 278,8km²

Upstream area

10 517,6km²

Discharge

559,8m³/s

Mean elev.

129m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Cahuinharí1367 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Cahuinarí

    IUCN II

    National Natural Park

    248.32 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

155 distinct species · 194 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

194 obs · 9 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 65
65–64
53–64
4–52
< 4

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

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

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

26,1°C

Annual rain

2 979mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,45

Runoff

2 030mm/an

PET

1 623mm

AET

1 623mm

Mean slope

0,7°

Water table

9cm

Forest

100%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

11%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)