HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080105230
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, Piar
Sub-basin area
133,6km²
Upstream area
2 088,3km²
Discharge
81,81m³/s
Mean elev.
509m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Taikupa414 km²
- Bassin de Río Wochuni341 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 120.1 km²90.3% of basin
- 13.0 km²9.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Canaima
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
133.02 km² overlap
Canaima National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
133.02 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
2 675mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
1 292mm/an
PET
1 676mm
AET
1 482mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
139cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)