HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080002590
Bassin de Río Matícora
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 7 administrative regions : Baralt, Buchivacoa, Dabajuro, Democracia, Mauroa +2
Sub-basin area
2 713,1km²
Upstream area
2 713,1km²
Discharge
5,32m³/s
Mean elev.
506m
Administrative coverage
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- BuchivacoaFalcón · Venezuela916.6 km²33.9% of basin
- 827.7 km²30.6% of basin
- 803.9 km²29.7% of basin
- DemocraciaFalcón · Venezuela96.1 km²3.6% of basin
- 31.9 km²1.2% of basin
- 18.0 km²0.7% of basin
- 7.8 km²0.3% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Protective Zone (ZP)
1740.67 km² overlap
Matícora y Cocuiza
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
428.32 km² overlap
Protective Zone (ZP)
92.50 km² overlap
Protective Zone (ZP)
37.03 km² overlap
National Hydraulic Reserve (RNH)
35.60 km² overlap
Protective Zone (ZP)
2.34 km² overlap
Lago de Maracaibo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
1.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
656 distinct species · 7 864 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 18 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 Matícora : 14 espèces reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 10.5%, 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°
24,3°C
Annual rain
1 089mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
90mm/an
PET
1 526mm
AET
918mm
Mean slope
7,2°
Water table
477cm
Forest
24%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
73%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)