HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080096660
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
822,3km²
Upstream area
1 249,1km²
Discharge
56,3m³/s
Mean elev.
282m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080100550250 km²
- Bassin · #6080100620177 km²
3 intersecting protected areas
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
478.73 km² overlap
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
335.04 km² overlap
Caño Blanco
IUCN VForest Area Under Protection (ABBP)
0.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 17 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 447mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,29
Runoff
1 322mm/an
PET
1 719mm
AET
1 376mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
33cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)