HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080116090
Bassin de Río Cacara
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 : Sucre
Sub-basin area
1 009km²
Upstream area
1 009,1km²
Discharge
55,51m³/s
Mean elev.
554m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 intersecting protected areas
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
1004.55 km² overlap
Sierra Maigualida
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
256.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
322 distinct species · 652 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
3 548mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,52
Runoff
1 765mm/an
PET
1 700mm
AET
1 574mm
Mean slope
8,0°
Water table
244cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)