HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080095350
Bassin de Río Aro
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 : Sucre
Sub-basin area
81,8km²
Upstream area
2 970,2km²
Discharge
115,05m³/s
Mean elev.
278m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Aro937 km²
- Bassin de Río Aro148 km²
3 intersecting protected areas
Caño Blanco
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
70.68 km² overlap
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
44.95 km² overlap
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
31.26 km² overlap
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
1 969mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
941mm/an
PET
1 725mm
AET
1 268mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
74cm
Forest
97%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)