HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080059630
Bassin de Río San Juan
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 : Benítez, Maturín, Punceres
Sub-basin area
629,5km²
Upstream area
7 613,2km²
Discharge
88,84m³/s
Mean elev.
30m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río San Juan2684 km²
- Bassin de Caño Dos Aguas649 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 487.8 km²77.8% of basin
- 136.2 km²21.7% of basin
- 3.0 km²0.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Selva de Guarapiche
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
463.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
24 distinct species · 71 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
1 744mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
403mm/an
PET
1 638mm
AET
1 356mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
100cm
Forest
87%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
62%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)