HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080066120
Bassin de Río Motatán
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 2 administrative regions : Urdaneta, Valera
Sub-basin area
48,4km²
Upstream area
764,6km²
Discharge
13,1m³/s
Mean elev.
1 198m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Motatán577 km²
- Bassin · #6080067000139 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- UrdanetaTrujillo · Venezuela45.7 km²94.7% of basin
- 2.6 km²5.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Protective Zone (ZP)
48.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 5 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°
21,0°C
Annual rain
821mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
367mm/an
PET
1 545mm
AET
694mm
Mean slope
25,5°
Water table
1 106cm
Forest
40%
Crops
10%
Urban
4%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)