HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080092970
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Rest of Region 7, Sifontes
Sub-basin area
31,4km²
Upstream area
43 563,2km²
Discharge
902,07m³/s
Mean elev.
152m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cuyuní769 km²
- Bassin de Río Cuyuní510 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 19.9 km²63.5% of basin
- 11.4 km²36.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Imataca
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
10.29 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
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,0°C
Annual rain
1 918mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
972mm/an
PET
1 594mm
AET
1 461mm
Mean slope
5,1°
Water table
111cm
Forest
100%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
15%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)