HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080073760
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
125,6km²
Upstream area
1 715,2km²
Discharge
7,26m³/s
Mean elev.
157m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Aribí587 km²
- Bassin de Río Pao250 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Monagas110.8 km²88.6% of basin
- Miranda14.2 km²11.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mesa de Guanipa
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
11.15 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
1 059mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
176mm/an
PET
1 794mm
AET
896mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
102cm
Forest
2%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)