HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080066290
Bassin de Río de Oro
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 6 administrative regions across 2 countries : Chiriguaná, Curumaní, El Carmen, Jesús María Semprún, La Jagua de Ibirico +1
Sub-basin area
1 144,9km²
Upstream area
1 145,3km²
Discharge
28,13m³/s
Mean elev.
909m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 915.5 km²80.3% of basin
- 135.3 km²11.9% of basin
- 88.1 km²7.7% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Perijá
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
1003.20 km² overlap
Lago de Maracaibo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
830.05 km² overlap
Catatumbo Barí
IUCN IINational Natural Park
124.62 km² overlap
Plan de Ordenacion y Manejo de la Cuenca Hidrografica Rio Bajo Cesar-Cienaga de Zapatosa
IUCN Not ApplicablePOMCA
0.54 km² overlap
Protective Zone (ZP)
0.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
64 distinct species · 78 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 9 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 de Oro : 7 espèces reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 19.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
2 530mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,36
Runoff
732mm/an
PET
1 608mm
AET
1 450mm
Mean slope
18,9°
Water table
721cm
Forest
74%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
95%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)