HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080028290
Bassin de Río Copiapó
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 : Copiapó
Sub-basin area
1 416,8km²
Upstream area
18 467,3km²
Discharge
4,99m³/s
Mean elev.
522m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Quebrada Los Cóndores476 km²
- Bassin de Río Copiapó323 km²
3 intersecting protected areas
Desierto Florido
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
3.85 km² overlap
Desembocadura Río Copiapó
IUCN Not ReportedNature Sanctuary
1.11 km² overlap
Punta Morro - Desembocadura Río Copiapó - Isla grande de Atacama
IUCN Not ReportedMultiple Use Conservation Area
0.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
503 distinct species · 26 486 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Copiapó : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 65 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
15,1°C
Annual rain
30mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,97
Runoff
11mm/an
PET
1 173mm
AET
33mm
Mean slope
7,7°
Water table
922cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
11%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)