HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080057470
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 2 administrative regions : Jesús Enrique Lossada, La Cañada de Urdaneta
Sub-basin area
199,7km²
Upstream area
199,9km²
Discharge
0,95m³/s
Mean elev.
101m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 135.6 km²68.2% of basin
- 63.2 km²31.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lago de Maracaibo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
198.87 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 165mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
156mm/an
PET
1 702mm
AET
985mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
111cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)