HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080026990
Bassin de Río Maule
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 : Linares, Talca
Sub-basin area
605,9km²
Upstream area
21 105,1km²
Discharge
530,01m³/s
Mean elev.
249m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Maule337 km²
- Bassin de Río Maule2 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 409.4 km²67.6% of basin
- 196.6 km²32.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Rocas de Constitución
IUCN Not ReportedNature Sanctuary
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
360 distinct species · 9 131 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Maule : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 44 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
12,8°C
Annual rain
956mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
506mm/an
PET
1 205mm
AET
590mm
Mean slope
9,9°
Water table
525cm
Forest
38%
Crops
8%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)