HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080073550
Bassin de Caño Medanito
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 : Miranda
Sub-basin area
410,3km²
Upstream area
410,4km²
Discharge
5,62m³/s
Mean elev.
68m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 intersecting protected areas
Acuífero de Calabozo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
408.48 km² overlap
Tiznados
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
26.48 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
175 distinct species · 1 663 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Caño Medanito : 20 espèces reliées par 32 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 336mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
432mm/an
PET
1 764mm
AET
1 056mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
5cm
Forest
3%
Crops
21%
Urban
0%
Protected
83%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)