HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080064970
Bassin de Río Cojedes
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 10 administrative regions : Agua Blanca, Anzoátegui, Araure, Ezequiel Zomora, Nirgua +5
Sub-basin area
1 458,4km²
Upstream area
4 765,7km²
Discharge
36,31m³/s
Mean elev.
414m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Nuare936 km²
- Bassin de Río Turbio619 km²
10 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 445.2 km²30.6% of basin
- Páez218.5 km²15.0% of basin
- 204.9 km²14.1% of basin
- 190.8 km²13.1% of basin
- 145.9 km²10.0% of basin
- 144.7 km²10.0% of basin
- 49.7 km²3.4% of basin
- 41.1 km²2.8% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
National Park (PN)
750.33 km² overlap
Cuenca Alta del Río Cojedes
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
68.47 km² overlap
Turén
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
14.22 km² overlap
Macizo de Nirgua
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
5.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
395 distinct species · 1 589 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Cojedes : 20 espèces reliées par 32 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 418mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
359mm/an
PET
1 731mm
AET
1 146mm
Mean slope
8,3°
Water table
320cm
Forest
42%
Crops
22%
Urban
1%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)