HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080077800
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 2 administrative regions : Heres, Independencia
Sub-basin area
81,8km²
Upstream area
823 489,8km²
Discharge
32 224,12m³/s
Mean elev.
53m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Orinoco156 km²
- Bassin de Río Orinoco2 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 58.2 km²71.5% of basin
- Independencia23.3 km²28.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,8°C
Annual rain
990mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
243mm/an
PET
1 754mm
AET
837mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
76cm
Forest
18%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)