HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080055580
Bassin de Río Tocuyo
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 : Jacura, Monseñor Iturriza
Sub-basin area
200,3km²
Upstream area
16 637,3km²
Discharge
51,12m³/s
Mean elev.
214m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Tocuyo647 km²
- Bassin de Río Tocuyo161 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Monseñor IturrizaFalcón · Venezuela146.6 km²73.5% of basin
- 52.9 km²26.5% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Río Tocuyo
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
90.26 km² overlap
Valle del Río Aroa
IUCN VIRural Integrated Development Area (ARDI)
83.93 km² overlap
Río Tucurere
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
54.62 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 11 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
1 426mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
85mm/an
PET
1 633mm
AET
1 202mm
Mean slope
7,1°
Water table
368cm
Forest
32%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
70%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)