HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080125660
Bassin de Río Karún
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 : Angostura
Sub-basin area
1 146,4km²
Upstream area
1 146,4km²
Discharge
68,55m³/s
Mean elev.
523m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 intersecting protected areas
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
1138.97 km² overlap
Yanomami
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
2.74 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
63 distinct species · 82 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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
2 943mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,41
Runoff
1 864mm/an
PET
1 722mm
AET
1 692mm
Mean slope
6,4°
Water table
217cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)