HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080003810
Bassin de Río Unare
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 11 administrative regions : Andrés Eloy Blanco, Andrés Mata, Arismendi, Benítez, Bermúdez +6
Sub-basin area
2 694,9km²
Upstream area
2 694,9km²
Discharge
1,12m³/s
Mean elev.
196m
Administrative coverage
11 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 571.9 km²21.3% of basin
- 508.2 km²18.9% of basin
- 467.7 km²17.4% of basin
- 305.4 km²11.4% of basin
- 282.0 km²10.5% of basin
- 158.0 km²5.9% of basin
- 140.3 km²5.2% of basin
- 44.6 km²1.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Península de Paria
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
351.61 km² overlap
Utilidad Pública y de Interés Turístico Recreacional Franja Costera entre La Esmeralda - Carúpano
IUCN VTourist Interest Area (ZIT)
24.56 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 649 distinct species · 6 075 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Unare : 30 espèces reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 4.5%, 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
1 135mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
224mm/an
PET
1 515mm
AET
915mm
Mean slope
10,5°
Water table
471cm
Forest
47%
Crops
13%
Urban
7%
Protected
22%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)