HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080073720
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 : Antonio Diaz
Sub-basin area
987,5km²
Upstream area
933 138,3km²
Discharge
36 720,41m³/s
Mean elev.
51m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Candelaria2189 km²
- Bassin de Río Orinoco226 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 983.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Imataca
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
602.62 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
347 distinct species · 755 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Río Orinoco : 32 espèces reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 5.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
1 759mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
470mm/an
PET
1 538mm
AET
1 375mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
105cm
Forest
96%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)