HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080086550
Bassin de Río Carapo
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 : Heres, Sucre
Sub-basin area
63,5km²
Upstream area
3 351,2km²
Discharge
60,22m³/s
Mean elev.
122m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Carapo1917 km²
- Bassin de Río La Piña549 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 60.5 km²95.6% of basin
- 2.8 km²4.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Forest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
18.56 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
1 448mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
510mm/an
PET
1 732mm
AET
1 153mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
132cm
Forest
13%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)