HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080111100
Bassin de Río Karuay
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
Sub-basin area
97,6km²
Upstream area
1 287,4km²
Discharge
56,79m³/s
Mean elev.
1 088m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Karuay678 km²
- Bassin de Río Karuaycito512 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 97.2 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Canaima
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
97.15 km² overlap
Canaima National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
97.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
21,3°C
Annual rain
2 619mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,41
Runoff
1 451mm/an
PET
1 531mm
AET
1 377mm
Mean slope
6,0°
Water table
237cm
Forest
97%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)