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
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Sipapo249 km²
- Bassin de Río Orinoco80 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 609.1 km²69.5% of basin
- 267.7 km²30.5% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sipapo
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
640.30 km² overlap
El Tuparro
IUCN IINational Natural Park
127.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 058 distinct species · 7 509 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Río Orinoco : 19 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
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)