HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080082420
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 1 administrative regions : Muñoz
Sub-basin area
516,4km²
Upstream area
2 278,8km²
Discharge
65,91m³/s
Mean elev.
83m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080087220208 km²
- Bassin de Caño Caicara84 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Caño Guaritíco
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge (RFS)
0.93 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
552 distinct species · 4 592 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 : 25 espèces reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.2%, 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 646mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
804mm/an
PET
1 669mm
AET
1 136mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
3cm
Forest
14%
Crops
4%
Urban
1%
Protected
46%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)