HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080127270
Bassin de Río Kauripí
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 2 administrative regions : Angostura, Gran Sabana
Sub-basin area
356,5km²
Upstream area
4 268,5km²
Discharge
171,51m³/s
Mean elev.
566m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Parkupik984 km²
- Bassin de Río Ikabarú573 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 345.0 km²97.2% of basin
- 10.0 km²2.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
354.98 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 13 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°
24,3°C
Annual rain
2 547mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,32
Runoff
1 486mm/an
PET
1 731mm
AET
1 659mm
Mean slope
5,7°
Water table
272cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)