HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080087390
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 : Cedeño, San Fernando
Sub-basin area
64,8km²
Upstream area
517 281,6km²
Discharge
25 374,88m³/s
Mean elev.
33m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Orinoco648 km²
- Bassin de Río Orinoco75 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 60.8 km²94.2% of basin
- 3.7 km²5.8% of basin
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°
27,7°C
Annual rain
1 640mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
750mm/an
PET
1 742mm
AET
1 076mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
45cm
Forest
54%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)