HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080117840
Bassin de Río Ventuari
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 : Manapiare
Sub-basin area
742,1km²
Upstream area
10 037,9km²
Discharge
501,38m³/s
Mean elev.
138m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #60801179201989 km²
- Bassin de Río Ventuari1959 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
27 distinct species · 37 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
2 590mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,26
Runoff
1 568mm/an
PET
1 909mm
AET
1 439mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
32cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)