HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080092900
Bassin de Río Cuyuní
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 across 2 countries : Rest of Region 1, Rest of Region 7, Sifontes
Sub-basin area
340,2km²
Upstream area
340,2km²
Discharge
9,23m³/s
Mean elev.
149m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 325.5 km²96.1% of basin
- 13.2 km²3.9% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Imataca
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
322.73 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 24 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
1 940mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,18
Runoff
865mm/an
PET
1 590mm
AET
1 463mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
57cm
Forest
100%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
93%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)