HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080079130
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
100km²
Upstream area
795 382,9km²
Discharge
31 838,68m³/s
Mean elev.
20m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Orinoco1053 km²
- Bassin de Río Ature890 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Monagas95.7 km²96.2% of basin
- 3.8 km²3.8% of basin
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°
28,2°C
Annual rain
1 134mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
405mm/an
PET
1 759mm
AET
959mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
24cm
Forest
37%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)