HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080065690
Bassin de Río Guárico
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 : Mellado, Roscio, Urdaneta
Sub-basin area
1 455,7km²
Upstream area
4 917,3km²
Discharge
24,49m³/s
Mean elev.
188m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Guárico2398 km²
- Bassin de Río Taguay1064 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1108.7 km²76.5% of basin
- 340.7 km²23.5% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Barbacas
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
529.35 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
225 distinct species · 646 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Guárico : 22 espèces reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
1 130mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
153mm/an
PET
1 815mm
AET
956mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
73cm
Forest
2%
Crops
15%
Urban
1%
Protected
70%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)