HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080004470
Bassin de Río Orinoco
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 : Antonio Diaz
Sub-basin area
125,9km²
Upstream area
938 384,3km²
Discharge
37 069,71m³/s
Mean elev.
15m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Orinoco988 km²
- Bassin de Río Imataca19 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 125.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Imataca
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
89.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
2 077mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,30
Runoff
593mm/an
PET
1 461mm
AET
1 387mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
26cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)