HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080056200
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 3 administrative regions : Bolívar, Unión, Urdaneta
Sub-basin area
164,8km²
Upstream area
15 431,5km²
Discharge
48,7m³/s
Mean elev.
241m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Paraparoy414 km²
- Bassin de Río Tocuyo17 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 153.2 km²93.3% of basin
- 10.9 km²6.7% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sierra de Bobare
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
38.08 km² overlap
Nirgua - Aroa
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
23.09 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 142mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
66mm/an
PET
1 661mm
AET
966mm
Mean slope
5,5°
Water table
354cm
Forest
10%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)