Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080121260

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: 61534934

Sub-basin area

481,4km²

Upstream area

481,4km²

Discharge

31,55m³/s

Mean elev.

1 195m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Caura217 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)

    479.34 km² overlap

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

Species present

192 distinct species · 385 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

385 obs · 4 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 378
378–377
3–377
3–2
< 3

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°

20,6°C

Annual rain

3 327mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,54

Runoff

2 026mm/an

PET

1 543mm

AET

1 466mm

Mean slope

10,5°

Water table

309cm

Forest

92%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

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