HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080115820
Bassin de Río Apakara
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 : Gran Sabana
Sub-basin area
1 002km²
Upstream area
1 002,5km²
Discharge
58,17m³/s
Mean elev.
1 135m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 997.7 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Canaima
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
997.67 km² overlap
Canaima National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
963.97 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
145 distinct species · 231 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°
21,1°C
Annual rain
2 929mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,47
Runoff
1 825mm/an
PET
1 552mm
AET
1 417mm
Mean slope
11,1°
Water table
347cm
Forest
65%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)