HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080144720
Bassin de Río Cuntinamo
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 1 administrative regions : Alto Orinoco
Sub-basin area
964,1km²
Upstream area
2 047,6km²
Discharge
109,75m³/s
Mean elev.
670m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cuntinamo785 km²
- Bassin de Río Cuntinamo298 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 959.8 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Alto Orinoco - Casiquiare
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve (RB)
959.80 km² overlap
Alto Orinoco - Casiquiare
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
959.80 km² overlap
Paríma - Tapirapeco
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
46.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 11 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°
23,7°C
Annual rain
2 796mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,39
Runoff
1 683mm/an
PET
1 687mm
AET
1 594mm
Mean slope
9,3°
Water table
284cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
89%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)