HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080074530
Bassin de Caño Arature
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
250,7km²
Upstream area
4 997,9km²
Discharge
94,63m³/s
Mean elev.
17m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Santa María1456 km²
- Bassin de Caño Cuyubiní496 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 249.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Imataca
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
249.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 5 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
2 191mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,32
Runoff
712mm/an
PET
1 485mm
AET
1 416mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
6cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)