HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080127410
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
1 242km²
Upstream area
1 242,2km²
Discharge
87,68m³/s
Mean elev.
884m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 intersecting protected areas
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
1236.59 km² overlap
Cerro Ichum y Cerro Guanacoco
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
5.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
409 distinct species · 789 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Caura : 19 espèces reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,2°C
Annual rain
3 120mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
2 145mm/an
PET
1 608mm
AET
1 553mm
Mean slope
8,7°
Water table
263cm
Forest
94%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)