Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080111090

Bassin de Río Yuawá

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 : Gran Sabana

Pfafstetter: 61520806

Sub-basin area

264km²

Upstream area

264,1km²

Discharge

12,6m³/s

Mean elev.

1 166m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Tirepón296 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Canaima

    IUCN II

    National Park (PN)

    262.84 km² overlap

  • Canaima National Park

    IUCN Not Applicable

    World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)

    262.84 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

28 distinct species · 73 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

73 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 61
61–60
6–60
2–5
< 2

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

20,9°C

Annual rain

2 648mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,43

Runoff

1 523mm/an

PET

1 520mm

AET

1 370mm

Mean slope

7,4°

Water table

277cm

Forest

82%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)