HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080091340
Bassin de Río Aro
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 : Sucre
Sub-basin area
325,6km²
Upstream area
4 889,7km²
Discharge
172,13m³/s
Mean elev.
274m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Aro1326 km²
- Bassin de Río Aro160 km²
3 intersecting protected areas
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
156.68 km² overlap
Caño Blanco
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
109.27 km² overlap
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
26.63 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
1 728mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
764mm/an
PET
1 720mm
AET
1 208mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
61cm
Forest
91%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
33%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)