HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080115010
Bassin de Río Kanimú
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 : Angostura
Sub-basin area
293,2km²
Upstream area
5 065,9km²
Discharge
358,5m³/s
Mean elev.
378m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Kuturí661 km²
- Bassin de Río Karún232 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
291.92 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
3 934mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,56
Runoff
2 482mm/an
PET
1 712mm
AET
1 587mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
125cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)