HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080121720
Bassin de Río Aponwao
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
546,4km²
Upstream area
3 989,7km²
Discharge
183,12m³/s
Mean elev.
917m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Aponwao574 km²
- Bassin de Rio Kapurarima172 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 544.1 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Canaima
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
544.05 km² overlap
Canaima National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
541.52 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 7 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°
22,1°C
Annual rain
2 501mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,34
Runoff
1 483mm/an
PET
1 644mm
AET
1 499mm
Mean slope
4,6°
Water table
194cm
Forest
25%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)