HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080109580
Bassin de Río Asarí
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 : Angostura, Sucre
Sub-basin area
483,8km²
Upstream area
24 443,4km²
Discharge
1 662,27m³/s
Mean elev.
378m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Paragua1000 km²
- Bassin de Río Parupá500 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 397.0 km²82.4% of basin
- 84.7 km²17.6% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
480.85 km² overlap
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
476.88 km² overlap
Cerro Guaiquinima
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
476.27 km² overlap
La Paragua
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
0.65 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 2 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
3 351mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,49
Runoff
1 911mm/an
PET
1 697mm
AET
1 546mm
Mean slope
4,4°
Water table
213cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)