HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080628180
Bassin de Río Grande
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 : Guarayos, Obispo Santistéban, Sara
Sub-basin area
398,5km²
Upstream area
78 413,9km²
Discharge
264,76m³/s
Mean elev.
195m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Grande411 km²
- Bassin de Río Pailas212 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 247.5 km²62.3% of basin
- 138.9 km²35.0% of basin
- 10.8 km²2.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Humedales del Norte
IUCN Not ReportedDepartmental Park
381.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 9 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
2 020mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
668mm/an
PET
1 717mm
AET
1 450mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
28cm
Forest
80%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)