HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080137090
Bassin de Rio Pacu
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, Gran Sabana
Sub-basin area
1 017km²
Upstream area
1 017km²
Discharge
23,16m³/s
Mean elev.
455m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1008.3 km²99.6% of basin
- 4.2 km²0.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
17.87 km² overlap
Río Icabaru
IUCN VINational Hydraulic Reserve (RNH)
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
55 distinct species · 56 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
2 008mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
782mm/an
PET
1 749mm
AET
1 430mm
Mean slope
7,0°
Water table
289cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)