HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080071090
Bassin de Río Orituco
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 : Mellado, Miranda
Sub-basin area
1 691,4km²
Upstream area
9 013,2km²
Discharge
57,35m³/s
Mean elev.
119m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Caño Los Aceites1686 km²
- Bassin de Río Tacatinemo216 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1584.6 km²94.1% of basin
- 99.8 km²5.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Barbacas
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
51.78 km² overlap
Aguaro - Guariquito
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
0.29 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
354 distinct species · 1 031 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Orituco : 33 espèces reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
1 230mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
224mm/an
PET
1 787mm
AET
1 022mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
30cm
Forest
1%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)