HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080056250
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 : Federación, Unión, Urdaneta
Sub-basin area
855,4km²
Upstream area
12 248,1km²
Discharge
44,82m³/s
Mean elev.
505m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Baragua2057 km²
- Bassin de Río Tocuyo891 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 733.0 km²86.0% of basin
- FederaciónFalcón · Venezuela98.0 km²11.5% of basin
- 21.0 km²2.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Embalse Mapara
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
137 distinct species · 712 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 Tocuyo : 19 espèces reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
23,7°C
Annual rain
743mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
46mm/an
PET
1 602mm
AET
627mm
Mean slope
12,3°
Water table
594cm
Forest
18%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)