HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080110040
Bassin de Río Orinoco
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 across 2 countries : Atures, Autana, Puerto Carreño
Sub-basin area
1 057,8km²
Upstream area
336 968,5km²
Discharge
17 524,93m³/s
Mean elev.
118m
Administrative coverage
Species present
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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
2 383mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,25
Runoff
1 531mm/an
PET
1 776mm
AET
1 393mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
136cm
Forest
45%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)