HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080121270
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
40,2km²
Upstream area
9 268,9km²
Discharge
654,74m³/s
Mean elev.
369m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caura720 km²
- Bassin de Río Caura623 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
40.07 km² overlap
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
24.90 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,2°C
Annual rain
3 445mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,50
Runoff
2 118mm/an
PET
1 717mm
AET
1 621mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
229cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)