HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080078920
Bassin de Río Guárico
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 : Camaguán, Miranda, San Gerónimo de Guayabal
Sub-basin area
1 297,9km²
Upstream area
18 680,2km²
Discharge
110,04m³/s
Mean elev.
67m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Guárico1694 km²
- Bassin de Río Orituco1691 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 814.3 km²63.0% of basin
- 295.2 km²22.8% of basin
- 182.9 km²14.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Acuífero de Calabozo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
668.52 km² overlap
Márgenes del Río Guárico
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
373.41 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
351 distinct species · 1 758 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 Guárico : 19 espèces reliées par 30 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 361mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
455mm/an
PET
1 738mm
AET
1 046mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
9cm
Forest
17%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
85%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)