HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080079400
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 : Heres, Miranda, Sucre
Sub-basin area
639,4km²
Upstream area
817 063,4km²
Discharge
32 235,41m³/s
Mean elev.
71m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Aro2010 km²
- Bassin de Río Orinoco352 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 386.6 km²60.7% of basin
- Miranda228.1 km²35.8% of basin
- 21.9 km²3.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mesa de Guanipa
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
112.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 10 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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
1 183mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
388mm/an
PET
1 751mm
AET
996mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
109cm
Forest
7%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)