HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080102590
Bassin de Río Caura
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 : Sucre
Sub-basin area
30,3km²
Upstream area
28 545,9km²
Discharge
1 765,96m³/s
Mean elev.
280m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caura790 km²
- Bassin de Río Caura122 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
30.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
25 distinct species · 30 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 3 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 Caura : 3 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 2 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 66.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,0°C
Annual rain
3 018mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
1 712mm/an
PET
1 724mm
AET
1 481mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
113cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)