HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080097180
Bassin de Río Carare
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 3 administrative regions : Bolívar, Cimitarra, Landázuri
Sub-basin area
945,2km²
Upstream area
5 511,2km²
Discharge
200,11m³/s
Mean elev.
200m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Carare1270 km²
- Bassin de Río Horta1103 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 635.1 km²67.5% of basin
- 249.5 km²26.5% of basin
- 56.6 km²6.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca Hidrografica del Rìo Carare-Minero
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
772.42 km² overlap
Integrated Management Regional Districts
131.12 km² overlap
Serranía de los Yariguíes
IUCN VIIntegrated Management Regional Districts
21.94 km² overlap
Lucitania
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
3.36 km² overlap
Las Pampas Porvenir
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
1.63 km² overlap
Aves de El Paujil
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 036 distinct species · 9 848 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Carare : 19 espèces reliées par 28 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,4°C
Annual rain
2 735mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
1 264mm/an
PET
1 727mm
AET
1 651mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
156cm
Forest
11%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)