HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080123510
Bassin de Río Caroní
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
2 726,1km²
Upstream area
18 302,5km²
Discharge
849,74m³/s
Mean elev.
808m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Karuay571 km²
- Bassin de Río Caroní271 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2714.1 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Canaima
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
1849.29 km² overlap
Canaima National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
1766.23 km² overlap
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
838.72 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
82 distinct species · 135 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°
22,9°C
Annual rain
2 930mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
1 743mm/an
PET
1 676mm
AET
1 590mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
235cm
Forest
92%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
90%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)