HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080056260
Bassin de Río Paraparoy
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
413,5km²
Upstream area
413,5km²
Discharge
0,58m³/s
Mean elev.
678m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 275.9 km²67.0% of basin
- FederaciónFalcón · Venezuela121.5 km²29.5% of basin
- 14.4 km²3.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cueva de la Quebrada El Toro
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
30.60 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
399 distinct species · 2 004 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Paraparoy : 21 espèces reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
1 041mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
45mm/an
PET
1 547mm
AET
876mm
Mean slope
8,2°
Water table
502cm
Forest
1%
Crops
4%
Urban
1%
Protected
68%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)