HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080064160
Bassin de Río Tamanaco
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 3 administrative regions : Chaguaramas, Infante, Monagas
Sub-basin area
205,3km²
Upstream area
205,3km²
Discharge
1,17m³/s
Mean elev.
231m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 110.4 km²54.0% of basin
- 91.6 km²44.8% of basin
- 2.5 km²1.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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
900mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
182mm/an
PET
1 762mm
AET
760mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
120cm
Forest
5%
Crops
42%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)