HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080073030
Bassin de Río Orinoco
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 : Casacoima, Sotillo
Sub-basin area
81,6km²
Upstream area
927 095,1km²
Discharge
36 633,93m³/s
Mean elev.
9m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Orinoco1743 km²
- Bassin de Río Orinoco802 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 62.1 km²76.4% of basin
- 19.2 km²23.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Imataca
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
3.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,5°C
Annual rain
1 174mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
166mm/an
PET
1 660mm
AET
993mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
28cm
Forest
44%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)