HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080061740
Bassin · #6080061740
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
863,5km²
Upstream area
863,7km²
Discharge
6,67m³/s
Mean elev.
16m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 440.8 km²51.3% of basin
- 419.1 km²48.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Pedernales
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
678.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
35 distinct species · 42 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
1 540mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
219mm/an
PET
1 561mm
AET
1 287mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
14cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)