HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080061230
Bassin de Río Güere
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 7 administrative regions : Aragua, Bolívar, Bruzual, Cajigal, Fernando de Peñalver +2
Sub-basin area
608km²
Upstream area
6 167,1km²
Discharge
9,38m³/s
Mean elev.
80m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Sacacual1015 km²
- Bassin de Río Güere740 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 178.4 km²29.5% of basin
- Píritu146.6 km²24.2% of basin
- Bolívar138.4 km²22.9% of basin
- 97.6 km²16.1% of basin
- 37.6 km²6.2% of basin
- 6.7 km²1.1% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Río Arauca - Güere
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
11.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 13 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
891mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
45mm/an
PET
1 750mm
AET
753mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
163cm
Forest
10%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)