HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080056940
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 : Iribarren, Torres, Urdaneta
Sub-basin area
890,9km²
Upstream area
9 336km²
Discharge
42,06m³/s
Mean elev.
611m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Curarigua1166 km²
- Bassin de Quebrada San Cristóbal1052 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 778.6 km²87.7% of basin
- 103.5 km²11.7% of basin
- 5.3 km²0.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cerro Saroche
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
41.60 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
138 distinct species · 578 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 5.0%, 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°
24,0°C
Annual rain
566mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
77mm/an
PET
1 597mm
AET
478mm
Mean slope
10,2°
Water table
582cm
Forest
41%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)