HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080057700
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
109,5km²
Upstream area
2 063,6km²
Discharge
11,59m³/s
Mean elev.
55m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080057570428 km²
- Bassin de Río Palmar24 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 67.9 km²62.2% of basin
- 41.2 km²37.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lago de Maracaibo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
109.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
44 distinct species · 58 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 12 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 Palmar : 10 espèces reliées par 11 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 16.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
27,7°C
Annual rain
1 103mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
213mm/an
PET
1 721mm
AET
933mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
52cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)