HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080084750
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 2 administrative regions : Las Mercedes, San Fernando
Sub-basin area
406km²
Upstream area
136 723,6km²
Discharge
2 555,92m³/s
Mean elev.
34m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin · #6080084340241 km²
- Bassin de Río Apure85 km²
- Bassin · #608004101024 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 381.1 km²94.3% of basin
- 23.2 km²5.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
56 distinct species · 86 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Apure : 12 espèces reliées par 15 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 12.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,7°C
Annual rain
1 554mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
701mm/an
PET
1 721mm
AET
1 049mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
5cm
Forest
63%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)