HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080026510
Bassin de Río Imperial
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 : Cautín
Sub-basin area
921,9km²
Upstream area
12 125,8km²
Discharge
323,28m³/s
Mean elev.
207m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Chol Chol903 km²
- Bassin de Río Cautín102 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Humedales de Monkul
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
320 distinct species · 13 184 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Río Imperial : 30 espèces reliées par 50 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
11,8°C
Annual rain
1 126mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
740mm/an
PET
1 055mm
AET
665mm
Mean slope
5,7°
Water table
336cm
Forest
65%
Crops
15%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)