HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080249550
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 3 administrative regions : La Chorrera, Puerto Arica, Puerto Santander
Sub-basin area
4 280,6km²
Upstream area
6 428,7km²
Discharge
325,27m³/s
Mean elev.
148m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cahuinharí1476 km²
- Bassin de Río Cahuinharí672 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2088.6 km²49.0% of basin
- 1524.3 km²35.8% of basin
- 648.6 km²15.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
159 distinct species · 197 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
2 882mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,44
Runoff
1 706mm/an
PET
1 624mm
AET
1 622mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
12cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)