HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080071350
Bassin de Río Tigre
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 : Freites, Guanipa, Independencia
Sub-basin area
444km²
Upstream area
1 752,1km²
Discharge
7,07m³/s
Mean elev.
171m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Tigre611 km²
- Bassin de Río Tigre418 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 239.1 km²54.1% of basin
- 192.1 km²43.4% of basin
- Independencia11.0 km²2.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mesa de Guanipa
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
442.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 10 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,7°C
Annual rain
999mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
138mm/an
PET
1 757mm
AET
845mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
223cm
Forest
2%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)