HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080075410
Bassin de Río Caroní
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 6 administrative regions : Angostura, Caroní, Heres, Independencia, Piar +1
Sub-basin area
2 356,3km²
Upstream area
92 046km²
Discharge
4 404,06m³/s
Mean elev.
167m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Tocoma1694 km²
- Bassin de Río Caroní769 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1118.3 km²47.7% of basin
- 506.3 km²21.6% of basin
- 344.5 km²14.7% of basin
- 336.8 km²14.4% of basin
- Independencia29.5 km²1.3% of basin
- 11.0 km²0.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
941 distinct species · 25 186 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 Caroní : 18 espèces reliées par 30 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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 067mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
249mm/an
PET
1 702mm
AET
903mm
Mean slope
3,9°
Water table
286cm
Forest
36%
Crops
0%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)