HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080091510
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 2 administrative regions : Cedeño, Pedro Camejo
Sub-basin area
207,3km²
Upstream area
486 889,4km²
Discharge
25 315,16m³/s
Mean elev.
124m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Suapure6112 km²
- Bassin · #60800938000 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 190.4 km²92.2% of basin
- 16.0 km²7.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Santos Luzardo
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
21.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
64 distinct species · 109 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
1 912mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
1 067mm/an
PET
1 748mm
AET
1 139mm
Mean slope
4,6°
Water table
182cm
Forest
51%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)