HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080096040
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
148,1km²
Upstream area
1 951km²
Discharge
82,98m³/s
Mean elev.
278m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Aro822 km²
- Bassin de Río Aro554 km²
3 intersecting protected areas
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
111.16 km² overlap
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
33.11 km² overlap
Caño Blanco
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
14.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
2 113mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,18
Runoff
1 040mm/an
PET
1 725mm
AET
1 306mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
58cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)