Mammalia · Rodentia
Capybara
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
The world's largest living rodent, highly adapted to life in and around tropical wetland basins, lakes, and seasonal floodplains.
- Realm
- Freshwater
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Data provenance
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and version Evidence snapshot
A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1486 licence-filtered records across 187 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (24)
- APE Guatiquia (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- BIOAGROS-LA CALERA, ZARZAL (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Bloque Mapache (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Bloque Quifa Global (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Campo Cubiro Copa (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Caracterización de Ecosistemas Sensibles – Área de Perforación Exploratoria Sabanero (LAM4649) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- FCT_Felinos MM_2017-2023 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Gestión para el Monitoreo Participativo de Biodiversidad en las cuencas del Río Frío, Cartama y San Antonio del municipio de Támesis, Antioquia (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Informe final monitoreo de fauna área de explotación Bloque Careto-Arauco 2024 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Informe final monitoreo de fauna área de explotación campos Cubiro y Copa (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Informe final monitoreo de fauna y flora área de explotación Bloque Arrendajo (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- MONITOREO CAMPO DE PRODUCCION COSECHA_2025_I (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Monitoreo de la fauna asociada al ecosistema del predio del Centro de Investigación y Conservación de los Bosques del Río Cauca (CIRCA) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Monitoreo periódico 2023 de Flora y Fauna silvestre en el área de explotación de hidrocarburos Quifa Norte-Norte (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Nueva subestación Toluviejo 220 kv y líneas asociadas - Tramo 2 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Registro Monitoreo participativo comunitario (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- RELATÓRIO DE LEVANTAMENTO DE FAUNA ETA Piraí - Implantação (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)