HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080078500
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 1 administrative regions : Monagas
Sub-basin area
10,4km²
Upstream area
3 816,2km²
Discharge
21,09m³/s
Mean elev.
16m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Pao1185 km²
- Bassin de Río Guaicupa631 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Monagas10.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
31 distinct species · 37 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°
28,2°C
Annual rain
1 079mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
340mm/an
PET
1 773mm
AET
913mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
23cm
Forest
35%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)