HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080061660
Bassin · #6080061660
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 : Pedernales, Tucupita
Sub-basin area
2,3km²
Upstream area
2 385,6km²
Discharge
19,94m³/s
Mean elev.
17m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080061740864 km²
- Bassin · #608006167014 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2.3 km²99.7% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Pedernales
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
0.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 569mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
290mm/an
PET
1 522mm
AET
1 290mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
113cm
Forest
91%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)