HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080118600
Bassin de Caño Tuparrito
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 : Cumaribo
Sub-basin area
194,5km²
Upstream area
194,5km²
Discharge
12,71m³/s
Mean elev.
128m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 intersecting protected areas
El Tuparro
IUCN IINational Natural Park
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
45 distinct species · 87 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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
2 862mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,41
Runoff
2 062mm/an
PET
1 695mm
AET
1 455mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
11cm
Forest
3%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)