HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080127530
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
1 235,7km²
Upstream area
6 019,1km²
Discharge
418,11m³/s
Mean elev.
519m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caura1549 km²
- Bassin de Río Caura1182 km²
3 intersecting protected areas
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
1230.25 km² overlap
Cerro Ichum y Cerro Guanacoco
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
1052.24 km² overlap
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
480.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
22 distinct species · 24 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
3 055mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,45
Runoff
2 168mm/an
PET
1 691mm
AET
1 663mm
Mean slope
6,7°
Water table
206cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)