HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080090230
Bassin de Río Capanaparo
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 : Pedro Camejo, San Fernando
Sub-basin area
565,7km²
Upstream area
18 959,2km²
Discharge
508,65m³/s
Mean elev.
49m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Caño La Pica2626 km²
- Bassin de Río Capanaparo1301 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 495.4 km²87.9% of basin
- 67.9 km²12.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Santos Luzardo
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
305.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
183 distinct species · 378 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Río Capanaparo : 32 espèces reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 4.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
1 869mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
1 049mm/an
PET
1 739mm
AET
1 121mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
11cm
Forest
27%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
61%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)