HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080117570
Bassin de Río Paragua
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 : Angostura
Sub-basin area
230,1km²
Upstream area
10 091,6km²
Discharge
649,95m³/s
Mean elev.
390m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Kareymurán160 km²
- Bassin de Río Paragua54 km²
3 intersecting protected areas
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
229.10 km² overlap
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
13.48 km² overlap
Cerro Ichum y Cerro Guanacoco
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
11.44 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 23 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 954mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,57
Runoff
2 289mm/an
PET
1 706mm
AET
1 629mm
Mean slope
4,7°
Water table
187cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)