HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080081260
Bassin de Río Zuata
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 : El Socorro, Monagas, Santa María de Ipire
Sub-basin area
597,6km²
Upstream area
4 714,4km²
Discharge
30,44m³/s
Mean elev.
65m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Zuata1431 km²
- Bassin de Río Zuata402 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 459.6 km²77.2% of basin
- 85.4 km²14.4% of basin
- Monagas50.1 km²8.4% of basin
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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
1 274mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
444mm/an
PET
1 779mm
AET
1 049mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
54cm
Forest
15%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)