HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080119970
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
Sub-basin area
217,1km²
Upstream area
9 966,8km²
Discharge
706,63m³/s
Mean elev.
396m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caura481 km²
- Bassin de Río Caura40 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
216.11 km² overlap
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
190.95 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
34 distinct species · 55 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
3 501mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,51
Runoff
2 101mm/an
PET
1 711mm
AET
1 613mm
Mean slope
5,7°
Water table
239cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)