HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080094380
Bassin de Río Capanaparo
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 : Rómulo Gallegos
Sub-basin area
980km²
Upstream area
5 488km²
Discharge
138,87m³/s
Mean elev.
85m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Capanaparo742 km²
- Bassin de Caño Caribe448 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 975.8 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
2 363mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,29
Runoff
1 213mm/an
PET
1 684mm
AET
1 236mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
4cm
Forest
3%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)