HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080070450
Bassin · #6080070450
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 : Convención, El Carmen, La Gloria, Pailitas, Pelaya
Sub-basin area
198,5km²
Upstream area
198,5km²
Discharge
3,81m³/s
Mean elev.
1 046m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 196.5 km²99.4% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Catatumbo Barí
IUCN IINational Natural Park
61.19 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrográfica Rio Algodonal
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
4.79 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
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,7°C
Annual rain
1 849mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
606mm/an
PET
1 568mm
AET
1 332mm
Mean slope
20,6°
Water table
768cm
Forest
61%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)