HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080116820
Bassin de Río Mauruk
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
787,8km²
Upstream area
788,3km²
Discharge
37,89m³/s
Mean elev.
1 120m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 784.4 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Canaima
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
784.40 km² overlap
Canaima National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
784.40 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
24 distinct species · 39 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°
21,0°C
Annual rain
2 598mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,40
Runoff
1 516mm/an
PET
1 557mm
AET
1 418mm
Mean slope
6,4°
Water table
274cm
Forest
66%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)