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
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°
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)