HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080085170
Bassin de Río Caura
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, Sucre
Sub-basin area
859,5km²
Upstream area
44 619,6km²
Discharge
2 376m³/s
Mean elev.
72m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caura454 km²
- Bassin de Río Caura297 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 768.0 km²89.7% of basin
- 87.8 km²10.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
43.51 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
756 distinct species · 2 494 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Caura : 24 espèces reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
1 814mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
726mm/an
PET
1 762mm
AET
1 251mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
73cm
Forest
31%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
45%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)