HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080068430
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 5 administrative regions across 2 countries : Convención, El Carmen, Jesús María Semprún, Teorama, Tibú
Sub-basin area
474,1km²
Upstream area
3 090km²
Discharge
77,8m³/s
Mean elev.
180m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río de Oro1145 km²
- Bassin de Río de Oro327 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 180.5 km²38.2% of basin
- 116.6 km²24.7% of basin
- 97.4 km²20.6% of basin
- 77.5 km²16.4% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Lago de Maracaibo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
267.45 km² overlap
Perijá
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
123.64 km² overlap
Catatumbo Barí
IUCN IINational Natural Park
120.20 km² overlap
Protective Zone (ZP)
77.61 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
77 distinct species · 160 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 2 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 : 2 espèces reliées par 1 interaction GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 100.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,3°C
Annual rain
3 389mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,47
Runoff
840mm/an
PET
1 792mm
AET
1 665mm
Mean slope
8,1°
Water table
382cm
Forest
56%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
60%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)