HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080068620
Bassin · #6080068620
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 : Convención, El Carmen
Sub-basin area
63,9km²
Upstream area
896,6km²
Discharge
19,21m³/s
Mean elev.
570m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080069310283 km²
- Bassin · #6080069250226 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 32.8 km²51.6% of basin
- 30.8 km²48.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Catatumbo Barí
IUCN IINational Natural Park
63.63 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
2 430mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,30
Runoff
728mm/an
PET
1 686mm
AET
1 508mm
Mean slope
19,4°
Water table
688cm
Forest
87%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)