HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080093120
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
9km²
Upstream area
43 912,5km²
Discharge
911,59m³/s
Mean elev.
130m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cuyuní340 km²
- Bassin de Río Cuyuní31 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 5.7 km²62.7% of basin
- 3.4 km²37.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Imataca
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
2.87 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
1 939mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,18
Runoff
991mm/an
PET
1 593mm
AET
1 465mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
82cm
Forest
100%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)