HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080056540
Bassin · #6080056540
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 : Jesús Enrique Lossada, Rosario de Perijá
Sub-basin area
422,9km²
Upstream area
423,1km²
Discharge
2,19m³/s
Mean elev.
960m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 371.4 km²88.2% of basin
- 49.8 km²11.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lago de Maracaibo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
421.20 km² overlap
Protective Zone (ZP)
122.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 29 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°
21,8°C
Annual rain
1 571mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
207mm/an
PET
1 545mm
AET
1 176mm
Mean slope
18,5°
Water table
682cm
Forest
35%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
34%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)