HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080094780
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
1 022,3km²
Upstream area
46 694,5km²
Discharge
1 012,21m³/s
Mean elev.
135m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cuyuní900 km²
- Bassin de Río Cuyuní587 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1017.9 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
22 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
2 158mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,29
Runoff
1 167mm/an
PET
1 534mm
AET
1 460mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
88cm
Forest
100%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)