HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080249960
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 2 administrative regions : Japurá, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro
Sub-basin area
2 741,1km²
Upstream area
241 090km²
Discharge
14 616,7m³/s
Mean elev.
82m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Caquetá2107 km²
- Bassin de Rio Juami913 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2723.8 km²99.8% of basin
- 5.1 km²0.2% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Parana do Boa Boa
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
732.11 km² overlap
Rio Negro
IUCN IbWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
709.82 km² overlap
Ecological Station
203.37 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
103 distinct species · 224 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
3 265mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,51
Runoff
931mm/an
PET
1 610mm
AET
1 610mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
16cm
Forest
93%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
34%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)