HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080126250
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
Sub-basin area
302,3km²
Upstream area
7 563,6km²
Discharge
527,5m³/s
Mean elev.
456m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caura1242 km²
- Bassin de Río Caura1236 km²
3 intersecting protected areas
Cerro Ichum y Cerro Guanacoco
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
301.01 km² overlap
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
301.01 km² overlap
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
265.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,6°C
Annual rain
3 261mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
2 163mm/an
PET
1 701mm
AET
1 666mm
Mean slope
5,9°
Water table
196cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)