HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080062040
Bassin de Río Casacará
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 across 2 countries : Agustín Codazzi, Becerríl, El Paso, La Jagua de Ibirico, La Paz +1
Sub-basin area
2 325,3km²
Upstream area
2 325,6km²
Discharge
39,51m³/s
Mean elev.
580m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1315.7 km²56.8% of basin
- 930.8 km²40.2% of basin
- 58.5 km²2.5% of basin
- 9.3 km²0.4% of basin
- 1.2 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca Hidrográfica Del Río Calenturitas
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
562.74 km² overlap
Serranía del Perijá
IUCN IIRegional Natural Parks
21.08 km² overlap
Perijá
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
1.85 km² overlap
Nueva Delhi
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
1.44 km² overlap
Lago de Maracaibo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
0.94 km² overlap
La Nacional
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.86 km² overlap
Altahona-Castro
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 512 distinct species · 23 359 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Casacará : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,7°C
Annual rain
1 753mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
536mm/an
PET
1 725mm
AET
1 260mm
Mean slope
9,3°
Water table
352cm
Forest
13%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)