HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080084460
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 : Las Mercedes, San Fernando
Sub-basin area
48km²
Upstream area
685 590,4km²
Discharge
28 581,99m³/s
Mean elev.
29m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Orinoco413 km²
- Bassin de Río Apure406 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 47.6 km²99.6% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
97 distinct species · 146 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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
1 540mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
744mm/an
PET
1 718mm
AET
1 047mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
30cm
Forest
15%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)