HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080089950
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
17,1km²
Upstream area
506 174,5km²
Discharge
25 809,88m³/s
Mean elev.
33m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Capanaparo566 km²
- Bassin de Río Orinoco81 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 17.1 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 11 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 781mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
892mm/an
PET
1 744mm
AET
1 099mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
9cm
Forest
15%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)