HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080078450
Bassin de Caño Morrocoy
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 : Barinas, Muñoz, Obispos
Sub-basin area
4,9km²
Upstream area
3 128km²
Discharge
53,12m³/s
Mean elev.
87m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Masparro1211 km²
- Bassin de Quebrada San José904 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 4.0 km²80.4% of basin
- 0.5 km²10.8% of basin
- 0.4 km²8.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Santo Domingo
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
0.45 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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
1 486mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,12
Runoff
541mm/an
PET
1 690mm
AET
1 121mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
13cm
Forest
17%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)