HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080111200
Bassin de Río Paragua
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 2 administrative regions : Angostura, Sucre
Sub-basin area
1 000,2km²
Upstream area
23 459,7km²
Discharge
1 601,18m³/s
Mean elev.
389m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Kamok694 km²
- Bassin de Río Paragua507 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 848.0 km²85.2% of basin
- 147.9 km²14.8% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
995.87 km² overlap
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
244.39 km² overlap
Cerro Guaiquinima
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
237.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
252 distinct species · 452 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 7 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 Paragua : 7 espèces reliées par 5 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 23.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,4°C
Annual rain
3 764mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,55
Runoff
2 171mm/an
PET
1 695mm
AET
1 564mm
Mean slope
4,6°
Water table
181cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)