HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080069890
Bassin de Río Portuguesa
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 3 administrative regions : Guanare, Ospino, Papelón
Sub-basin area
776,6km²
Upstream area
3 220km²
Discharge
63,31m³/s
Mean elev.
191m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Portuguesa1645 km²
- Bassin de Río Morador798 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 377.8 km²48.9% of basin
- 368.6 km²47.7% of basin
- 27.0 km²3.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
El Guache
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
11.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
362 distinct species · 1 734 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 Portuguesa : 18 espèces reliées par 18 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
1 563mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
551mm/an
PET
1 759mm
AET
1 199mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
65cm
Forest
24%
Crops
61%
Urban
1%
Protected
25%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)