HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080087690
Bassin de Caño Caicara
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 3 administrative regions : Muñoz, Páez, Rómulo Gallegos
Sub-basin area
543km²
Upstream area
949,3km²
Discharge
28,64m³/s
Mean elev.
103m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Caño Caicara262 km²
- Bassin de Caño Venado144 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 348.3 km²64.4% of basin
- 178.0 km²32.9% of basin
- 14.4 km²2.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
42 distinct species · 48 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 13 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 Caño Caicara : 11 espèces reliées par 13 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 14.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
1 771mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
949mm/an
PET
1 656mm
AET
1 163mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
4cm
Forest
20%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)