Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080122000

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: 61534936

Sub-basin area

719,7km²

Upstream area

719,9km²

Discharge

49,56m³/s

Mean elev.

756m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Caura40 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)

    716.54 km² overlap

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

Species present

305 distinct species · 694 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

694 obs · 10 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 523
523–522
28–522
16–27
< 16

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°

23,0°C

Annual rain

3 307mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,51

Runoff

2 135mm/an

PET

1 633mm

AET

1 561mm

Mean slope

7,7°

Water table

235cm

Forest

88%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

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