HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080062840
Bassin de Quebrada La Arenita
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 4 administrative regions : Acevedo, Chaguaramas, Monagas, San José de Guaribe
Sub-basin area
521,9km²
Upstream area
521,9km²
Discharge
3,35m³/s
Mean elev.
311m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 503.2 km²96.8% of basin
- 7.9 km²1.5% of basin
- 7.5 km²1.4% of basin
- 1.1 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca del Río Tuy
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
6.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
1 009mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
208mm/an
PET
1 721mm
AET
852mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
210cm
Forest
12%
Crops
26%
Urban
0%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)