HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080118230
Bassin · #6080118230
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 : Sucre
Sub-basin area
301,1km²
Upstream area
301,1km²
Discharge
18,47m³/s
Mean elev.
1 517m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 intersecting protected areas
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
298.55 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 6 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°
18,9°C
Annual rain
3 299mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,55
Runoff
1 924mm/an
PET
1 473mm
AET
1 393mm
Mean slope
11,4°
Water table
497cm
Forest
51%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)