HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080072600
Bassin · #6080072600
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 4 administrative regions : Aragua, Freites, Miranda, Simón Rodríguez
Sub-basin area
642,7km²
Upstream area
642,8km²
Discharge
3,23m³/s
Mean elev.
231m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Miranda555.8 km²86.8% of basin
- 62.0 km²9.7% of basin
- 17.5 km²2.7% of basin
- 4.7 km²0.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mesa de Guanipa
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
640.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 11 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
1 049mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
159mm/an
PET
1 793mm
AET
887mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
149cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)