HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080071080
Bassin de Río Guárico
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 : Mellado, Miranda, Ortíz
Sub-basin area
1 693,7km²
Upstream area
8 368,6km²
Discharge
37,16m³/s
Mean elev.
125m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Paya1757 km²
- Bassin de Río Guárico1456 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 751.5 km²44.6% of basin
- 559.1 km²33.1% of basin
- 376.1 km²22.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Acuífero de Calabozo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
145.62 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
667 distinct species · 5 975 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Guárico : 23 espèces reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
27,2°C
Annual rain
1 193mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
181mm/an
PET
1 806mm
AET
1 004mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
35cm
Forest
1%
Crops
13%
Urban
2%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)