HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080094450
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 1 administrative regions : Rest of Region 7
Sub-basin area
35,8km²
Upstream area
47 837,5km²
Discharge
1 055,25m³/s
Mean elev.
95m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Iroma River646 km²
- Bassin de Río Cuyuní166 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 35.6 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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
2 226mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,33
Runoff
1 154mm/an
PET
1 499mm
AET
1 438mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
94cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)