HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080109910
Bassin de Río Cataniapo
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 3 administrative regions : Atures, Autana, Cedeño
Sub-basin area
1 588,8km²
Upstream area
1 589km²
Discharge
76,08m³/s
Mean elev.
271m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1476.9 km²93.4% of basin
- 94.6 km²6.0% of basin
- 10.3 km²0.7% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Sipapo
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
1570.07 km² overlap
Protective Zone (ZP)
1488.04 km² overlap
Piedra Pintada
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
15.01 km² overlap
Piedra La Tortuga
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
0.86 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 535 distinct species · 7 445 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Cataniapo : 26 espèces reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,8°C
Annual rain
2 543mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,31
Runoff
1 510mm/an
PET
1 745mm
AET
1 389mm
Mean slope
8,7°
Water table
281cm
Forest
93%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
35%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)