Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080132050

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 2 administrative regions : Manapiare, Sucre

Pfafstetter: 61534990

Sub-basin area

1 134,5km²

Upstream area

1 134,7km²

Discharge

71,81m³/s

Mean elev.

1 137m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Caura1549 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Caura

    IUCN II

    National Park (PN)

    1129.46 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

12 distinct species · 12 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

12 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 6
6–5
3–5
1–2
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

20,9°C

Annual rain

3 179mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,51

Runoff

1 979mm/an

PET

1 561mm

AET

1 495mm

Mean slope

8,2°

Water table

233cm

Forest

97%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)