HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080078570
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 : Monagas, Sucre
Sub-basin area
209,1km²
Upstream area
797 167km²
Discharge
31 847,71m³/s
Mean elev.
42m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cabrutica1575 km²
- Bassin de Río Orinoco100 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Monagas143.1 km²68.7% of basin
- 65.2 km²31.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 13 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°
28,0°C
Annual rain
1 120mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
388mm/an
PET
1 759mm
AET
947mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
73cm
Forest
39%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)