HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080101210
Bassin de Río Caroní
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
130,9km²
Upstream area
33 246,4km²
Discharge
1 712,09m³/s
Mean elev.
408m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caroní1843 km²
- Bassin de Río Kukurital887 km²
3 intersecting protected areas
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
51.94 km² overlap
La Paragua
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
48.52 km² overlap
Canaima
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
24.86 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,6°C
Annual rain
2 522mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,34
Runoff
1 338mm/an
PET
1 659mm
AET
1 344mm
Mean slope
4,6°
Water table
204cm
Forest
66%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)