HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080082280
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 1 administrative regions : Infante
Sub-basin area
258,1km²
Upstream area
726 755,4km²
Discharge
29 396,9m³/s
Mean elev.
32m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Manapire674 km²
- Bassin de Río Cuchivero10 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 14 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 520mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,12
Runoff
743mm/an
PET
1 733mm
AET
1 081mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
24cm
Forest
59%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)