HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080077790
Bassin de Río Orinoco
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 : Heres, Independencia, Miranda
Sub-basin area
155,8km²
Upstream area
819 553,9km²
Discharge
32 210,86m³/s
Mean elev.
54m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Limo835 km²
- Bassin de Río Orinoco748 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Miranda79.6 km²51.3% of basin
- 39.6 km²25.5% of basin
- Independencia35.9 km²23.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mesa de Guanipa
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
9.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
67 distinct species · 106 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Orinoco : 18 espèces reliées par 22 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
27,9°C
Annual rain
1 023mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
248mm/an
PET
1 760mm
AET
865mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
92cm
Forest
24%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)