HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080079310
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 3 administrative regions : Miranda, Monagas, Sucre
Sub-basin area
351,8km²
Upstream area
801 334,6km²
Discharge
31 866,64m³/s
Mean elev.
30m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Orinoco209 km²
- Bassin de Río Orinoco10 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Miranda242.7 km²69.3% of basin
- Monagas62.1 km²17.7% of basin
- 45.4 km²13.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mesa de Guanipa
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
188.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
40 distinct species · 46 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 7 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 Orinoco : 7 espèces reliées par 6 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 28.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
28,1°C
Annual rain
1 079mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
315mm/an
PET
1 774mm
AET
912mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
50cm
Forest
38%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)