HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080147540
Bassin de Río Padamo
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
132km²
Upstream area
4 092,6km²
Discharge
224,01m³/s
Mean elev.
187m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cuntinamo1913 km²
- Bassin de Río Cuntinamo964 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 131.4 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Alto Orinoco - Casiquiare
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve (RB)
131.37 km² overlap
Alto Orinoco - Casiquiare
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
131.37 km² overlap
Duida - Marahuaca
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
1.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
20 distinct species · 31 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 635mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,32
Runoff
1 624mm/an
PET
1 795mm
AET
1 646mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
93cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)