HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080141670
Bassin de Caño Minisiare
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 : Barranco Minas, Cumaribo, Mapiripana
Sub-basin area
2 335,6km²
Upstream area
2 335,6km²
Discharge
119,28m³/s
Mean elev.
174m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1921.0 km²82.6% of basin
- 404.3 km²17.4% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
30 distinct species · 34 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
2 985mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,44
Runoff
1 616mm/an
PET
1 679mm
AET
1 530mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
35cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)