HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080118710
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
1 598,3km²
Upstream area
19 768,1km²
Discharge
995,75m³/s
Mean elev.
222m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Manapiare892 km²
- Bassin de Río Ventuari742 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Cerro Camani y Cerro Morrocoy
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
582.20 km² overlap
Natural Monument (MN)
156.60 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
663 distinct species · 6 225 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Ventuari : 18 espèces reliées par 17 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,0°C
Annual rain
2 690mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,30
Runoff
1 610mm/an
PET
1 877mm
AET
1 449mm
Mean slope
3,9°
Water table
144cm
Forest
92%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)