HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080027910
Bassin de Río Elqui
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 : Elqui
Sub-basin area
53,1km²
Upstream area
9 463,3km²
Discharge
10,6m³/s
Mean elev.
115m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Quebrada Santa Gracia1080 km²
- Bassin de Quebrada El Arrayán916 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
373 distinct species · 5 331 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 55 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 Elqui : 40 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 94 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
15,0°C
Annual rain
80mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,92
Runoff
34mm/an
PET
1 029mm
AET
79mm
Mean slope
4,7°
Water table
603cm
Forest
5%
Crops
3%
Urban
58%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)