HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080133320
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Amajari, Angostura, Sucre
Sub-basin area
1 182km²
Upstream area
1 182km²
Discharge
73,61m³/s
Mean elev.
768m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1110.6 km²94.4% of basin
- 64.3 km²5.5% of basin
- 1.9 km²0.2% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
1172.07 km² overlap
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
958.45 km² overlap
Cerro Ichum y Cerro Guanacoco
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
902.99 km² overlap
Yanomami
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
2.74 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
25 distinct species · 31 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°
23,0°C
Annual rain
2 882mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
1 913mm/an
PET
1 644mm
AET
1 630mm
Mean slope
7,8°
Water table
282cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
90%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)