HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080112450
Bassin de Caño Santo
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 3 administrative regions : Autana, Cedeño, Manapiare
Sub-basin area
1 528,2km²
Upstream area
1 528,3km²
Discharge
87,46m³/s
Mean elev.
484m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1118.1 km²73.5% of basin
- 212.0 km²13.9% of basin
- 191.5 km²12.6% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Cerro Camani y Cerro Morrocoy
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
407.35 km² overlap
Serranía Yutajé / Coro - coro
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
373.12 km² overlap
Cerro Guanay
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
157.36 km² overlap
Sipapo
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
11.80 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
341 distinct species · 1 415 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Caño Santo : 24 espèces reliées par 22 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
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
2 824mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,36
Runoff
1 683mm/an
PET
1 790mm
AET
1 403mm
Mean slope
9,6°
Water table
274cm
Forest
73%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
63%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)