HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080133460
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 across 2 countries : Amajari, Sucre
Sub-basin area
1 549km²
Upstream area
3 601,7km²
Discharge
238,2m³/s
Mean elev.
662m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Caura1135 km²
- Bassin de Río Caura918 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1512.8 km²98.1% of basin
- 29.4 km²1.9% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Caura
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
1478.09 km² overlap
Cerro Ichum y Cerro Guanacoco
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
513.13 km² overlap
Yanomami
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
30.93 km² overlap
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
1.73 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
67 distinct species · 78 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°
23,5°C
Annual rain
2 870mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,42
Runoff
1 956mm/an
PET
1 663mm
AET
1 631mm
Mean slope
8,3°
Water table
262cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
50%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)