HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080083670
Bassin de Río Matiyure
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 : Achaguas, Muñoz
Sub-basin area
426,2km²
Upstream area
4 233,1km²
Discharge
115m³/s
Mean elev.
68m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Caño Caucagua993 km²
- Bassin de Río Matiyure575 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 424.0 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
El Yagual
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
24.82 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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 530mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
759mm/an
PET
1 695mm
AET
1 085mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
4cm
Forest
24%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)