HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080093520
Bassin de Río Aro
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 1 administrative regions : Sucre
Sub-basin area
160km²
Upstream area
3 237,7km²
Discharge
122,62m³/s
Mean elev.
306m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Aro107 km²
- Bassin de Río Aro82 km²
3 intersecting protected areas
Caño Blanco
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
97.33 km² overlap
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
87.49 km² overlap
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
69.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
34 distinct species · 59 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
1 880mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
875mm/an
PET
1 718mm
AET
1 241mm
Mean slope
4,1°
Water table
197cm
Forest
78%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)