Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080117370

Bassin de Rio Kapurarima

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

Pfafstetter: 61520922

Sub-basin area

172,3km²

Upstream area

172,3km²

Discharge

8,14m³/s

Mean elev.

1 152m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Aponwao546 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Canaima

    IUCN II

    National Park (PN)

    171.57 km² overlap

  • Canaima National Park

    IUCN Not Applicable

    World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)

    171.57 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

15 distinct species · 16 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

16 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 16
16–15
16–15
16–15
< 16

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

20,7°C

Annual rain

2 505mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,38

Runoff

1 491mm/an

PET

1 558mm

AET

1 414mm

Mean slope

6,5°

Water table

287cm

Forest

43%

Crops

2%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)