HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080114870
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
507km²
Upstream area
14 280,9km²
Discharge
930,18m³/s
Mean elev.
420m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Marik1754 km²
- Bassin de Río Paragua64 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 475.0 km²94.1% of basin
- 29.7 km²5.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
504.74 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
22 distinct species · 34 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
3 920mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,57
Runoff
2 321mm/an
PET
1 696mm
AET
1 594mm
Mean slope
5,6°
Water table
190cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)