HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080096690
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 2 administrative regions : Angostura, Sucre
Sub-basin area
553,8km²
Upstream area
553,9km²
Discharge
21,92m³/s
Mean elev.
295m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 464.9 km²84.3% of basin
- 86.5 km²15.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
545.67 km² overlap
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
3.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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 413mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,29
Runoff
1 250mm/an
PET
1 717mm
AET
1 360mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
56cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)