HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080064170
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 5 administrative regions : Chaguaramas, Infante, Monagas, Ribas, San José de Guaribe
Sub-basin area
294,4km²
Upstream area
1 089km²
Discharge
5,67m³/s
Mean elev.
196m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Quebrada La Arenita522 km²
- Bassin · #6080062850273 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 99.2 km²33.8% of basin
- 89.1 km²30.4% of basin
- 63.4 km²21.6% of basin
- 29.0 km²9.9% of basin
- 12.6 km²4.3% of basin
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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
857mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
143mm/an
PET
1 780mm
AET
723mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
140cm
Forest
15%
Crops
29%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)