Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080098330

Bassin de Río Cuyuní

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 : Sifontes

Pfafstetter: 61622603

Sub-basin area

115,9km²

Upstream area

2 432,2km²

Discharge

87,07m³/s

Mean elev.

152m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Cuyuní635 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Imataca

    IUCN VI

    Forest Reserve (RF)

    115.36 km² overlap

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

Species present

6 distinct species · 7 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

7 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 4
4–3
4–3
2–3
< 2

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°

26,7°C

Annual rain

2 006mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,13

Runoff

883mm/an

PET

1 740mm

AET

1 524mm

Mean slope

1,6°

Water table

49cm

Forest

100%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

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