HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080067020
Bassin · #6080067020
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 : Ricaurte, Romulo Gallegos
Sub-basin area
556,4km²
Upstream area
557km²
Discharge
6,78m³/s
Mean elev.
96m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 408.5 km²73.7% of basin
- 145.6 km²26.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Libertad
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
55.92 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 19 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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
1 342mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
384mm/an
PET
1 806mm
AET
1 100mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
43cm
Forest
8%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
31%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)