HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080004030
Bassin de Río Guanipa
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 : Maturín
Sub-basin area
462,9km²
Upstream area
10 319,5km²
Discharge
33,87m³/s
Mean elev.
17m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Guanipa944 km²
- Bassin de Río Amana556 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Río Guanipa
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
264.13 km² overlap
Selva de Guarapiche
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
196.84 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 14 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
1 623mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
236mm/an
PET
1 619mm
AET
1 320mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
19cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
40%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)