HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080095490
Bassin de Río Orinoco
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 : Pedro Camejo
Sub-basin area
24,3km²
Upstream area
480 156,7km²
Discharge
24 749,01m³/s
Mean elev.
25m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cinaruco462 km²
- Bassin de Río Orinoco187 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 24.2 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Santos Luzardo
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
17.91 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 11 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°
27,9°C
Annual rain
2 011mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
1 214mm/an
PET
1 786mm
AET
1 205mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
9cm
Forest
43%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)