HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080004000
Bassin de Río San Juan
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 2 administrative regions : Benítez, Maturín
Sub-basin area
22,3km²
Upstream area
8 506,4km²
Discharge
100,14m³/s
Mean elev.
12m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080059640871 km²
- Bassin de Río San Juan630 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 20.6 km²92.9% of basin
- 1.6 km²7.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Selva de Guarapiche
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
22.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 5 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
1 628mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
371mm/an
PET
1 599mm
AET
1 303mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
104cm
Forest
88%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
89%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)