HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080073810
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 2 administrative regions : Antonio Diaz, Casacoima
Sub-basin area
225,9km²
Upstream area
929 963,2km²
Discharge
36 676,39m³/s
Mean elev.
12m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Araguao208 km²
- Bassin de Río Orinoco51 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 192.7 km²85.7% of basin
- 32.3 km²14.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Imataca
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
112.60 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
379 distinct species · 1 469 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 : 20 espèces reliées par 17 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
1 577mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
353mm/an
PET
1 594mm
AET
1 319mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
30cm
Forest
68%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)