HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080117460
Bassin de Río Kurutú
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, Sucre
Sub-basin area
1 864,1km²
Upstream area
1 864,3km²
Discharge
125,25m³/s
Mean elev.
587m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1138.1 km²61.3% of basin
- 717.9 km²38.7% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
1855.98 km² overlap
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
1682.34 km² overlap
Cerro Ichum y Cerro Guanacoco
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
1677.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
23 distinct species · 34 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°
24,0°C
Annual rain
3 604mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,54
Runoff
2 124mm/an
PET
1 669mm
AET
1 625mm
Mean slope
6,0°
Water table
220cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)