HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080105350
Bassin · #6080105350
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
522,9km²
Upstream area
1 996,6km²
Discharge
117,96m³/s
Mean elev.
300m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080108040895 km²
- Bassin · #6080107900579 km²
3 intersecting protected areas
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
520.61 km² overlap
Cerro Guaiquinima
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
201.88 km² overlap
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
50.54 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 11 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,8°C
Annual rain
3 075mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,44
Runoff
1 797mm/an
PET
1 715mm
AET
1 502mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
70cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)