HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080093870
Bassin de Río Orinoco
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 : Cedeño, Pedro Camejo
Sub-basin area
98,8km²
Upstream area
480 444,2km²
Discharge
24 878,98m³/s
Mean elev.
41m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Orinoco189 km²
- Bassin de Río Orinoco24 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 71.0 km²72.2% of basin
- 27.4 km²27.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Santos Luzardo
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
32.56 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
33 distinct species · 63 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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
1 960mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
1 174mm/an
PET
1 780mm
AET
1 181mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
20cm
Forest
50%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
69%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)