HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080097690
Bassin de Río Cinaruco
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
Sub-basin area
5,6km²
Upstream area
996,3km²
Discharge
33,57m³/s
Mean elev.
94m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cinaruco789 km²
- Bassin de Río Cinaruco202 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 4.0 km²71.2% of basin
- 1.6 km²28.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cinaruco
IUCN VIIntegrated Management National Districts
4.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
27,2°C
Annual rain
2 087mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,20
Runoff
1 260mm/an
PET
1 672mm
AET
1 228mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
4cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)