The title complex, [CoCl(C5H13N)(C2H8N2)2]Cl2·H2O, comprises one chloridobis(ethyl­enediamine)(n-pentyl­amine)cobalt(III) cation, two chloride counter-anions and a water mol­ecule. The CoIII atom of the complex is hexa­coordinated by five N and one Cl atoms. The five N atoms are from two chelating ethyl­enediamine and one n-pentyl­amine ligands. Neighbouring cations and anions are connected by N—H⋯Cl and N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds to each other and also to the water mol­ecule.

KR thanks Dr Babu Varghese, SAIF, IIT-Madras, India, for his help with the data collection and the management of Kandaswami Kandar's College, Velur, Namakkal, India, for their encouragement to pursue the programme. Supplementary data and figures for this paper are available from the IUCr electronic archives (Reference: BT5046). metal-organic compounds m1174 Ravichandran et al.