HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080140180
Bassin de Rio Uraricaá
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, Angostura
Sub-basin area
943,5km²
Upstream area
943,6km²
Discharge
49,04m³/s
Mean elev.
418m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 930.9 km²99.1% of basin
- 8.4 km²0.9% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Yanomami
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
928.50 km² overlap
Sur del Estado Bolívar
IUCN VIProtective Zone (ZP)
85.70 km² overlap
Sierra Marutani
IUCN IIINatural Monument (MN)
4.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
57 distinct species · 81 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
2 400mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,27
Runoff
1 397mm/an
PET
1 743mm
AET
1 609mm
Mean slope
7,4°
Water table
252cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)