HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080001840
Bassin de Río Apón
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 5 administrative regions across 2 countries : Agustín Codazzi, La Paz, Machiques de Perijá, Manaure, Rosario de Perijá
Sub-basin area
1 991,9km²
Upstream area
1 991,9km²
Discharge
22,03m³/s
Mean elev.
919m
Administrative coverage
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1437.6 km²72.5% of basin
- 544.8 km²27.5% of basin
- 1.1 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Lago de Maracaibo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
1872.19 km² overlap
Perijá
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
587.36 km² overlap
Protective Zone (ZP)
300.07 km² overlap
Protective Zone (ZP)
14.85 km² overlap
Serranía del Perijá
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
1.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
651 distinct species · 7 896 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Apón : 18 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,2°C
Annual rain
1 708mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
309mm/an
PET
1 566mm
AET
1 206mm
Mean slope
13,0°
Water table
480cm
Forest
24%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
46%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)