HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080089680
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 1 administrative regions : San Fernando
Sub-basin area
177,4km²
Upstream area
513 297km²
Discharge
25 836,3m³/s
Mean elev.
38m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Caño Boca Brava191 km²
- Bassin de Río Orinoco17 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 176.7 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
48 distinct species · 84 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 758mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,01
Runoff
842mm/an
PET
1 744mm
AET
1 096mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
24cm
Forest
50%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)