HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080075090
Bassin de Río Portuguesa
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 4 administrative regions : Arismendi, Girardot, Miranda, Pao de San Juan Bautista
Sub-basin area
527,2km²
Upstream area
35 514,8km²
Discharge
486,11m³/s
Mean elev.
63m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Portuguesa1185 km²
- Bassin de Río Chirgua829 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 431.4 km²82.2% of basin
- 81.2 km²15.5% of basin
- ArismendiBarinas · Venezuela10.8 km²2.1% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 395mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,21
Runoff
509mm/an
PET
1 760mm
AET
1 079mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
12cm
Forest
11%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)