HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080077080
Bassin de Río Candelaria
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 : Angostura, Heres, Independencia
Sub-basin area
1 091,2km²
Upstream area
827 039,3km²
Discharge
32 225,61m³/s
Mean elev.
114m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Orinoco403 km²
- Bassin de Río Orinoco124 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 883.7 km²81.3% of basin
- Independencia200.8 km²18.5% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mesa de Guanipa
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
69.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
292 distinct species · 1 286 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Candelaria : 28 espèces reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
27,2°C
Annual rain
993mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
300mm/an
PET
1 722mm
AET
840mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
161cm
Forest
9%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)