HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080241370
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 across 2 countries : Japurá, La Pedrera
Sub-basin area
347,5km²
Upstream area
207 680,2km²
Discharge
14 444,67m³/s
Mean elev.
103m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caquetá1742 km²
- Bassin de Río Apaporis998 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 285.2 km²82.4% of basin
- 60.8 km²17.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
52 distinct species · 81 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
3 374mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,52
Runoff
1 617mm/an
PET
1 602mm
AET
1 602mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
26cm
Forest
97%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)