Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080123220

Bassin de Río Ventuari

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 : Manapiare

Pfafstetter: 61582950

Sub-basin area

839,2km²

Upstream area

4 600,3km²

Discharge

239,79m³/s

Mean elev.

497m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Ventuari1959 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Sierra Maigualida

    IUCN III

    Natural Monument (MN)

    41.62 km² overlap

  • Caura

    IUCN II

    National Park (PN)

    38.01 km² overlap

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

Species present

29 distinct species · 42 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

42 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 24
24–23
24–23
17–23
< 17

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°

25,0°C

Annual rain

2 998mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,41

Runoff

1 618mm/an

PET

1 769mm

AET

1 490mm

Mean slope

9,1°

Water table

314cm

Forest

98%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

1%

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