HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080790050
Bassin de Río El Tunal
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 : Guachipas, La Viña, Metán
Sub-basin area
475,9km²
Upstream area
475,9km²
Discharge
1,09m³/s
Mean elev.
1 799m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 328.6 km²69.2% of basin
- 145.0 km²30.5% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 22 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°
15,0°C
Annual rain
409mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
76mm/an
PET
1 430mm
AET
347mm
Mean slope
14,5°
Water table
611cm
Forest
29%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)