HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080171210
Bassin de Brazo Casiquiare
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 : Maroa, Río Negro
Sub-basin area
1 654km²
Upstream area
42 478km²
Discharge
2 575,78m³/s
Mean elev.
103m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Brazo Casiquiare2233 km²
- Bassin de Brazo Casiquiare317 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 834.7 km²50.7% of basin
- 812.0 km²49.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Alto Orinoco - Casiquiare
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve (RB)
3.86 km² overlap
Alto Orinoco - Casiquiare
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
3.86 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 370 distinct species · 3 575 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Brazo Casiquiare : 23 espèces reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,4°C
Annual rain
3 340mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,42
Runoff
2 353mm/an
PET
1 938mm
AET
1 931mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
14cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)