HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080119190
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
53,6km²
Upstream area
9 702km²
Discharge
619,41m³/s
Mean elev.
364m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Paragua378 km²
- Bassin de Río Kumakayán345 km²
3 intersecting protected areas
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
53.38 km² overlap
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
53.17 km² overlap
Cerro Ichum y Cerro Guanacoco
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
52.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
3 939mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,56
Runoff
2 281mm/an
PET
1 716mm
AET
1 656mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
97cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)