HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080073600
Bassin de Río Pao
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 : Miranda, Monagas
Sub-basin area
249,8km²
Upstream area
1 003,1km²
Discharge
3,87m³/s
Mean elev.
175m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Pao549 km²
- Bassin de Río Pao205 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Miranda211.0 km²84.8% of basin
- Monagas37.8 km²15.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mesa de Guanipa
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
93.37 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
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,1°C
Annual rain
1 043mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
144mm/an
PET
1 807mm
AET
882mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
131cm
Forest
1%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)