HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080083980
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 2 administrative regions : Cedeño, Monagas
Sub-basin area
562,2km²
Upstream area
741 610,3km²
Discharge
29 459,82m³/s
Mean elev.
31m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río San Bartolo432 km²
- Bassin · #60800816704 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Monagas484.7 km²86.6% of basin
- 75.0 km²13.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 15 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°
28,0°C
Annual rain
1 397mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,21
Runoff
613mm/an
PET
1 773mm
AET
1 121mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
31cm
Forest
41%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)