Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080119960

Bassin de Río Caura

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

Pfafstetter: 61534932

Sub-basin area

512,7km²

Upstream area

512,7km²

Discharge

33,46m³/s

Mean elev.

557m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Caura763 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Caura

    IUCN II

    National Park (PN)

    510.49 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

39 distinct species · 53 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

53 obs · 4 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 38
38–37
8–37
8–7
< 8

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

24,3°C

Annual rain

3 473mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,52

Runoff

2 041mm/an

PET

1 680mm

AET

1 569mm

Mean slope

6,7°

Water table

213cm

Forest

93%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)