HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080070780
Bassin de Caño Los Aceites
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 : Chaguaramas, Las Mercedes, Miranda
Sub-basin area
1 686,1km²
Upstream area
1 686,2km²
Discharge
12,91m³/s
Mean elev.
146m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 757.5 km²45.1% of basin
- 615.4 km²36.6% of basin
- 306.3 km²18.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Río Orituco
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
15.49 km² overlap
Aguaro - Guariquito
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
11.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
124 distinct species · 246 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Caño Los Aceites : 26 espèces reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 5.2%, 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°
26,8°C
Annual rain
1 075mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
235mm/an
PET
1 778mm
AET
905mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
26cm
Forest
0%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)