HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080080480
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 1 administrative regions : Sosa
Sub-basin area
6,3km²
Upstream area
47 180,5km²
Discharge
1 177,37m³/s
Mean elev.
73m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Caño Setenta2696 km²
- Bassin de Río Apure600 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Caño Guaritíco
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge (RFS)
0.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
1 500mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
645mm/an
PET
1 691mm
AET
1 099mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
6cm
Forest
77%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)