HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080057460
Bassin de Río Palmar
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 : Jesús Enrique Lossada, La Cañada de Urdaneta, Rosario de Perijá
Sub-basin area
495,1km²
Upstream area
1 302,8km²
Discharge
5,23m³/s
Mean elev.
233m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080056540423 km²
- Bassin · #6080056560385 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 285.0 km²57.8% of basin
- 195.0 km²39.6% of basin
- 13.0 km²2.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lago de Maracaibo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
493.08 km² overlap
Protective Zone (ZP)
14.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
20 distinct species · 42 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
1 344mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
159mm/an
PET
1 693mm
AET
1 127mm
Mean slope
5,9°
Water table
352cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)