HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080120370
Bassin de Río Caroní
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
Sub-basin area
270,6km²
Upstream area
11 313,1km²
Discharge
473,73m³/s
Mean elev.
875m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Aponwao546 km²
- Bassin de Río Caroní432 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 269.4 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
144.65 km² overlap
Canaima
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
118.53 km² overlap
Canaima National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
61.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
2 667mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
1 566mm/an
PET
1 667mm
AET
1 550mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
158cm
Forest
79%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)