Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080096950

Bassin de Río Riecito

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 across 2 countries : Arauca, Rómulo Gallegos

Pfafstetter: 61550682

Sub-basin area

534,7km²

Upstream area

534,7km²

Discharge

18,93m³/s

Mean elev.

94m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Riecito1140 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Cinaruco

    IUCN VI

    Integrated Management National Districts

    9.86 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

68 distinct species · 93 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

93 obs · 4 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 90
90–89
1–89
1–0
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

27,2°C

Annual rain

2 109mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,21

Runoff

1 236mm/an

PET

1 674mm

AET

1 221mm

Mean slope

0,1°

Water table

2cm

Forest

2%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)