Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080120320

Bassin de Río Karuay

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 : Gran Sabana

Pfafstetter: 61520801

Sub-basin area

571,4km²

Upstream area

4 263,5km²

Discharge

206,12m³/s

Mean elev.

905m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Caroní2726 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Canaima National Park

    IUCN Not Applicable

    World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)

    568.95 km² overlap

  • Canaima

    IUCN II

    National Park (PN)

    568.95 km² overlap

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

Species present

32 distinct species · 58 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

58 obs · 7 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 37
37–36
8–36
1–7
< 1

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°

22,3°C

Annual rain

2 864mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,42

Runoff

1 586mm/an

PET

1 654mm

AET

1 540mm

Mean slope

3,6°

Water table

145cm

Forest

51%

Crops

2%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

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