Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080068670

Bassin de Río Socuavo

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 : Catatumbo, Jesús María Semprún

Pfafstetter: 61302061

Sub-basin area

210,2km²

Upstream area

5 541,2km²

Discharge

165,27m³/s

Mean elev.

21m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Catatumbo386 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Lago de Maracaibo

    IUCN VI

    Critical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)

    209.29 km² overlap

  • Río Tarra

    IUCN V

    Forest Area Under Protection (ABBP)

    95.22 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

7 distinct species · 8 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

8 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 5
5–4
5–4
2–4
< 2

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

28,5°C

Annual rain

2 087mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,11

Runoff

795mm/an

PET

1 844mm

AET

1 550mm

Mean slope

0,6°

Water table

33cm

Forest

13%

Crops

4%

Urban

0%

Protected

37%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)