HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080126140
Bassin · #6080126140
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
Sub-basin area
322,3km²
Upstream area
322,4km²
Discharge
21,41m³/s
Mean elev.
960m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 intersecting protected areas
Cerro Ichum y Cerro Guanacoco
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
320.92 km² overlap
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
320.92 km² overlap
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
320.92 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
33 distinct species · 61 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°
21,9°C
Annual rain
3 366mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,53
Runoff
2 094mm/an
PET
1 587mm
AET
1 536mm
Mean slope
6,8°
Water table
253cm
Forest
94%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)