HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080116000
Bassin de Río Caroní
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 : Angostura, Gran Sabana
Sub-basin area
22,8km²
Upstream area
27 397,9km²
Discharge
1 326,94m³/s
Mean elev.
443m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caroní2176 km²
- Bassin de Río Tirika1378 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 12.5 km²55.0% of basin
- 10.2 km²45.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Canaima
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
12.97 km² overlap
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
9.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
3 515mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,51
Runoff
2 097mm/an
PET
1 739mm
AET
1 617mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
162cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)