HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080055240
Bassin de Río Carraipia
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Almirante Padilla, Guajira, Maicao, Mara
Sub-basin area
1 151,8km²
Upstream area
1 151,9km²
Discharge
2,49m³/s
Mean elev.
40m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 845.5 km²73.7% of basin
- 259.4 km²22.6% of basin
- 28.9 km²2.5% of basin
- 13.4 km²1.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Lago de Maracaibo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
664.56 km² overlap
Montes de Oca
IUCN VIRegional Protective Forest Reserves
17.10 km² overlap
Protective Zone (ZP)
0.92 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
280 distinct species · 13 934 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Carraipia : 18 espèces reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 12.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
28,1°C
Annual rain
763mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
82mm/an
PET
1 641mm
AET
644mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
50cm
Forest
3%
Crops
1%
Urban
2%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)