HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080076610
Bassin de Caño Caujarito
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 3 administrative regions : Arismendi, Camaguán, Miranda
Sub-basin area
508,3km²
Upstream area
40 929km²
Discharge
559,36m³/s
Mean elev.
59m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Portuguesa527 km²
- Bassin de Caño Guayabal398 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 433.4 km²85.6% of basin
- ArismendiBarinas · Venezuela54.2 km²10.7% of basin
- 18.6 km²3.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Acuífero de Calabozo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
414.82 km² overlap
Tiznados
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
2.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
173 distinct species · 1 779 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Caño Caujarito : 18 espèces reliées par 32 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
1 454mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
528mm/an
PET
1 739mm
AET
1 078mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
5cm
Forest
24%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)