HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080115890
Bassin de Río Cuao
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 : Autana
Sub-basin area
486,7km²
Upstream area
3 803,8km²
Discharge
190,88m³/s
Mean elev.
272m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cuao1267 km²
- Bassin de Río Cuao481 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Sipapo
IUCN VIForest Reserve (RF)
484.58 km² overlap
Protective Zone (ZP)
3.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
25 distinct species · 29 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°
26,8°C
Annual rain
2 650mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,33
Runoff
1 503mm/an
PET
1 762mm
AET
1 432mm
Mean slope
9,5°
Water table
282cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
93%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)