HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080111360
Bassin de Río Parupá
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
500,1km²
Upstream area
500,1km²
Discharge
30,93m³/s
Mean elev.
383m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 495.3 km²99.5% of basin
- 2.7 km²0.5% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
456.04 km² overlap
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
113.60 km² overlap
Cerro Guaiquinima
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
64.85 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
28 distinct species · 42 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
3 596mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,53
Runoff
1 959mm/an
PET
1 697mm
AET
1 566mm
Mean slope
4,9°
Water table
166cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)