Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080073040

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 1 administrative regions : Casacoima

48% lakePfafstetter: 61510055

Sub-basin area

334,4km²

Upstream area

928 733km²

Discharge

36 650,53m³/s

Mean elev.

86m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Orinoco51 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Imataca

    IUCN VI

    Forest Reserve (RF)

    229.19 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

77 distinct species · 111 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

111 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 90
90–89
12–89
4–11
< 4

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

26,2°C

Annual rain

1 362mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,17

Runoff

236mm/an

PET

1 634mm

AET

1 154mm

Mean slope

3,7°

Water table

172cm

Forest

75%

Crops

0%

Urban

1%

Protected

73%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)