HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080017550
Bassin de Cañada Fernández del Rincón de Ajó
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 : General Lavalle, Tordillo
Sub-basin area
6,4km²
Upstream area
2 759,9km²
Discharge
26m³/s
Mean elev.
1m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Canal 2454 km²
- Bassin de Canal 2115 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 5.9 km²92.1% of basin
- 0.4 km²5.9% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Bahía de Samborombón
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
6.41 km² overlap
Bahía de Samborombón
IUCN VIIntegral Nature Reserve
6.24 km² overlap
Rincón de Ajó
IUCN IVIntegral Nature Reserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 7 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°
15,1°C
Annual rain
780mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
198mm/an
PET
1 103mm
AET
665mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
1cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)