Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080104740

Bassin de Río Carrao

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 2 administrative regions : Gran Sabana, Sifontes

Pfafstetter: 61520409

Sub-basin area

718,4km²

Upstream area

718,4km²

Discharge

27,86m³/s

Mean elev.

1 038m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Taikupa414 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Canaima

    IUCN II

    National Park (PN)

    715.32 km² overlap

  • Canaima National Park

    IUCN Not Applicable

    World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)

    708.10 km² overlap

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

Species present

89 distinct species · 160 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

160 obs · 10 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 84
84–83
19–83
4–18
< 4

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°

21,5°C

Annual rain

2 119mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,28

Runoff

1 280mm/an

PET

1 518mm

AET

1 338mm

Mean slope

7,1°

Water table

299cm

Forest

91%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

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