HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080083160
Bassin de Río Pao
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 : Monagas, Sucre
Sub-basin area
2 198,6km²
Upstream area
2 199km²
Discharge
45,19m³/s
Mean elev.
136m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2146.7 km²98.1% of basin
- Monagas42.6 km²1.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
1386.45 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
288 distinct species · 375 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Río Pao : 25 espèces reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 4.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
1 624mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
650mm/an
PET
1 719mm
AET
1 193mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
130cm
Forest
63%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
87%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)