HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080150840
Bassin de Río Orinoco
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
572,8km²
Upstream area
573,2km²
Discharge
31,97m³/s
Mean elev.
442m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 570.2 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Alto Orinoco - Casiquiare
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve (RB)
570.24 km² overlap
Alto Orinoco - Casiquiare
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
570.24 km² overlap
Duida - Marahuaca
IUCN IINational Park (PN)
404.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
356 distinct species · 538 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 881mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,39
Runoff
1 759mm/an
PET
1 748mm
AET
1 650mm
Mean slope
9,0°
Water table
290cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)