HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080099770
Bassin de Río Paragua
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 : Angostura
Sub-basin area
538,7km²
Upstream area
29 367,7km²
Discharge
1 937,48m³/s
Mean elev.
367m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Toronó1669 km²
- Bassin de Río Paragua935 km²
4 intersecting protected areas
La Paragua
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
325.27 km² overlap
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
196.28 km² overlap
Cerro Guaiquinima
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
81.44 km² overlap
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
79.48 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
301 distinct species · 480 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 11 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 Paragua : 10 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 8 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 14.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
25,5°C
Annual rain
2 760mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,38
Runoff
1 369mm/an
PET
1 696mm
AET
1 387mm
Mean slope
4,6°
Water table
269cm
Forest
86%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)