HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080091580
Bassin de Río Caura
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, Sucre
Sub-basin area
249,7km²
Upstream area
249,7km²
Discharge
6,26m³/s
Mean elev.
168m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 208.5 km²83.9% of basin
- 40.1 km²16.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
248.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
32 distinct species · 37 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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
1 839mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
791mm/an
PET
1 730mm
AET
1 268mm
Mean slope
5,1°
Water table
200cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)