HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080105620
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
1 493,3km²
Upstream area
13 672,2km²
Discharge
943,42m³/s
Mean elev.
327m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caura936 km²
- Bassin de Río Caura763 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
1486.80 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
295 distinct species · 544 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
3 259mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,47
Runoff
1 899mm/an
PET
1 721mm
AET
1 540mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
107cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)