HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080093530
Bassin de Río San Carlos
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 : Angostura
Sub-basin area
810,6km²
Upstream area
38 034,9km²
Discharge
2 241,7m³/s
Mean elev.
333m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Chiguao2496 km²
- Bassin de Río Paragua301 km²
3 intersecting protected areas
La Paragua
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
660.80 km² overlap
El Frío
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
159.71 km² overlap
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
96.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
78 distinct species · 102 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río San Carlos : 10 espèces reliées par 9 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 20.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,9°C
Annual rain
1 880mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
899mm/an
PET
1 685mm
AET
1 238mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
193cm
Forest
83%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)