HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080073430
Bassin de Río Caris
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 : Guanipa, Independencia, Miranda, Simón Rodríguez
Sub-basin area
465,6km²
Upstream area
1 578,3km²
Discharge
7,77m³/s
Mean elev.
173m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080072600643 km²
- Bassin de Río Caris470 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 212.7 km²45.9% of basin
- Miranda132.7 km²28.6% of basin
- 99.2 km²21.4% of basin
- Independencia19.1 km²4.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mesa de Guanipa
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
463.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 65 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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
1 064mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
162mm/an
PET
1 796mm
AET
900mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
191cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)