HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080076650
Bassin de Río Guanare Viejo
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
299,4km²
Upstream area
8 122,1km²
Discharge
175,59m³/s
Mean elev.
57m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Caño Villasana929 km²
- Bassin · #6080075590301 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ArismendiBarinas · Venezuela267.5 km²89.7% of basin
- 28.8 km²9.7% of basin
- 1.8 km²0.6% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Esteros de Camaguán
IUCN IVWildlife Reserve (REFA)
12.75 km² overlap
Acuífero de Calabozo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
11.15 km² overlap
Protective Zone (ZP)
0.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
1 511mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
578mm/an
PET
1 729mm
AET
1 085mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
8cm
Forest
16%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)