HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080057550
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 : La Cañada de Urdaneta, Rosario de Perijá
Sub-basin area
23,6km²
Upstream area
1 526,3km²
Discharge
6,51m³/s
Mean elev.
67m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Palmar495 km²
- Bassin de Río Palmar200 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 21.6 km²91.8% of basin
- 1.9 km²8.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lago de Maracaibo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
23.55 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
1 185mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
211mm/an
PET
1 727mm
AET
1 003mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
37cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)