HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080084740
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
575,4km²
Upstream area
2 813,5km²
Discharge
79,52m³/s
Mean elev.
73m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Matiyure568 km²
- Bassin de Río Matiyure449 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 403.9 km²70.5% of basin
- 169.0 km²29.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
El Yagual
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
11.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 8 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 649mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,02
Runoff
866mm/an
PET
1 685mm
AET
1 117mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
5cm
Forest
9%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)