HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080098130
Bassin de Río Nichare
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 : Cedeño
Sub-basin area
279,8km²
Upstream area
4 031,4km²
Discharge
198,46m³/s
Mean elev.
122m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080098290613 km²
- Bassin de Río Nichare118 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
278.65 km² overlap
Sierra Maigualida
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
10.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
23 distinct species · 23 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 281mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,22
Runoff
1 170mm/an
PET
1 768mm
AET
1 386mm
Mean slope
4,1°
Water table
155cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)