HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080084280
Bassin de Río Apure
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 : San Fernando
Sub-basin area
85km²
Upstream area
136 075,9km²
Discharge
2 588,11m³/s
Mean elev.
38m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Apure639 km²
- Bassin · #6080084610145 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 84.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Acuífero de Calabozo
IUCN VICritical Area with Treatment Priority (ACPT)
14.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
1 571mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
677mm/an
PET
1 719mm
AET
1 052mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
3cm
Forest
59%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)