HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080080580
Bassin de Caño Guaritico
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
213,8km²
Upstream area
5 579,7km²
Discharge
152,31m³/s
Mean elev.
73m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Caño Guaritico3087 km²
- Bassin de Caño Guaritico516 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 204.3 km²96.0% of basin
- 8.6 km²4.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Caño Guaritíco
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge (RFS)
7.84 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
250 distinct species · 476 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Caño Guaritico : 26 espèces reliées par 45 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
1 533mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
669mm/an
PET
1 685mm
AET
1 107mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
3cm
Forest
31%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)