HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080080330
Bassin de Río Apure
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 : Muñoz, Sosa
Sub-basin area
599,8km²
Upstream area
44 478,9km²
Discharge
1 116,8m³/s
Mean elev.
77m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Boconó2602 km²
- Bassin de Río Apure234 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 360.5 km²60.4% of basin
- 236.8 km²39.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
125 distinct species · 264 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 18 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 Apure : 10 espèces reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 20.3%, 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
1 472mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
606mm/an
PET
1 691mm
AET
1 108mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
9cm
Forest
27%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
30%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)