HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080094750
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 3 administrative regions : El Callao, Roscio, Sifontes
Sub-basin area
490,7km²
Upstream area
26 430km²
Discharge
508,34m³/s
Mean elev.
153m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cuyuní635 km²
- Bassin de Río Yuruan66 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 373.4 km²76.4% of basin
- 114.4 km²23.4% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Imataca
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
342.52 km² overlap
El Dorado - Tumeremo
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
287.60 km² overlap
San Pedro
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
0.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
400 distinct species · 699 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Cuyuní : 25 espèces reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,6°C
Annual rain
1 550mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
621mm/an
PET
1 737mm
AET
1 300mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
67cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
62%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)