HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080002010
Bassin de Río Chama
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 6 administrative regions : Alberto Adriani, Andrés Bello, Antonio Pinto Salinas, Colón, Francisco Javier Pulgar +1
Sub-basin area
812,6km²
Upstream area
4 049,8km²
Discharge
77,42m³/s
Mean elev.
470m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Mocotíes507 km²
- Bassin de Río Chama109 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 266.0 km²32.9% of basin
- 249.7 km²30.9% of basin
- 118.4 km²14.6% of basin
- 90.7 km²11.2% of basin
- 76.6 km²9.5% of basin
- 7.8 km²1.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Zona Sur Lago de Maracaibo
IUCN VINational Hydraulic Reserve (RNH)
663.71 km² overlap
Lago de Maracaibo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
459.93 km² overlap
Protective Zone (ZP)
170.35 km² overlap
Protective Zone (ZP)
41.03 km² overlap
National Park (PN)
12.28 km² overlap
Protective Zone (ZP)
3.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
340 distinct species · 597 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Chama : 29 espèces reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
1 382mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
532mm/an
PET
1 729mm
AET
1 166mm
Mean slope
6,7°
Water table
222cm
Forest
19%
Crops
2%
Urban
5%
Protected
57%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)