HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080058580
Bassin de Río Tuy
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 6 administrative regions : Camatagua, Lander, Monagas, San Casimiro, Simón Bolívar +1
Sub-basin area
323,8km²
Upstream area
323,8km²
Discharge
2,4m³/s
Mean elev.
599m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 238.3 km²73.9% of basin
- 46.3 km²14.4% of basin
- 15.8 km²4.9% of basin
- 13.5 km²4.2% of basin
- 6.6 km²2.0% of basin
- 1.9 km²0.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca del Río Tuy
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
318.38 km² overlap
Guatopo
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
317.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 36 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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
1 424mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
234mm/an
PET
1 632mm
AET
1 159mm
Mean slope
15,5°
Water table
603cm
Forest
81%
Crops
20%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)