HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080115340
Bassin de Río Orinoco
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 across 2 countries : Autana, Cumaribo
Sub-basin area
880,6km²
Upstream area
305 339,6km²
Discharge
15 884,61m³/s
Mean elev.
121m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,9°C
Annual rain
2 504mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,29
Runoff
1 530mm/an
PET
1 789mm
AET
1 446mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
99cm
Forest
61%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)