HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080027980
Bassin de Quebrada de Los Choros
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 : Elqui, Huasco
Sub-basin area
71,2km²
Upstream area
3 911,9km²
Discharge
3,05m³/s
Mean elev.
262m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 69.9 km²98.3% of basin
- 1.2 km²1.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Humedal La Boca
IUCN Not ReportedNature Sanctuary
0.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
179 distinct species · 996 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Quebrada de Los Choros : 29 espèces reliées par 40 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
15,4°C
Annual rain
64mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,94
Runoff
17mm/an
PET
1 146mm
AET
63mm
Mean slope
6,0°
Water table
787cm
Forest
0%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)