HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080030550
Bassin de Río Cañete
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 3 administrative regions : Cañete, Chincha, Yauyos
Sub-basin area
1 207,9km²
Upstream area
6 083,1km²
Discharge
71,69m³/s
Mean elev.
1 644m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Madean525 km²
- Bassin de Río Cañete33 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1011.1 km²84.0% of basin
- 192.2 km²16.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Protection Forest
0.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
248 distinct species · 4 890 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Cañete : 24 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.2%, 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°
15,4°C
Annual rain
138mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
133mm/an
PET
1 453mm
AET
117mm
Mean slope
21,7°
Water table
944cm
Forest
4%
Crops
5%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)