HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080097000
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 1 administrative regions : Rómulo Gallegos
Sub-basin area
363,2km²
Upstream area
2 793,6km²
Discharge
91,57m³/s
Mean elev.
93m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Caño La Ventaneada1050 km²
- Bassin de Río Cinaruco48 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 361.7 km²100.0% of basin
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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
2 184mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,23
Runoff
1 294mm/an
PET
1 682mm
AET
1 235mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
3cm
Forest
5%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)