HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080088670
Bassin de Caño Las Chispas
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 1 administrative regions : Achaguas
Sub-basin area
601,1km²
Upstream area
601,1km²
Discharge
18,09m³/s
Mean elev.
68m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 2 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
1 668mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,02
Runoff
985mm/an
PET
1 693mm
AET
1 105mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
2cm
Forest
11%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
25%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)