HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080001970
Bassin de Delta del Escalante
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 1 administrative regions : Colón
Sub-basin area
106,9km²
Upstream area
4 888,7km²
Discharge
91,88m³/s
Mean elev.
6m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de caño la maroma859 km²
- Bassin de caño la maroma315 km²
3 intersecting protected areas
Lago de Maracaibo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
106.40 km² overlap
Zona Sur Lago de Maracaibo
IUCN VINational Hydraulic Reserve (RNH)
105.63 km² overlap
Ciénagas de Juan Manuel
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
80.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
28,7°C
Annual rain
1 489mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,19
Runoff
362mm/an
PET
1 836mm
AET
1 259mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
11cm
Forest
56%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
61%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)