HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080244590
Bassin de Rio 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 1 administrative regions : Japurá
Sub-basin area
696,1km²
Upstream area
251 605,4km²
Discharge
14 288,31m³/s
Mean elev.
56m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #60802475101524 km²
- Bassin de Rio Caquetá407 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Extractive Reserve
11.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 12 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
2 899mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,44
Runoff
1 365mm/an
PET
1 635mm
AET
1 634mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
16cm
Forest
85%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)