HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080090290
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 3 administrative regions : Cedeño, Pedro Camejo, San Fernando
Sub-basin area
80,8km²
Upstream area
487 198,1km²
Discharge
25 324,69m³/s
Mean elev.
36m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Orinoco228 km²
- Bassin de Río Orinoco207 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 38.6 km²48.0% of basin
- 37.5 km²46.6% of basin
- 4.4 km²5.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
48 distinct species · 73 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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
1 813mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
955mm/an
PET
1 745mm
AET
1 106mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
21cm
Forest
12%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
72%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)