HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080031540
Bassin de Río Chicama
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 4 administrative regions : Ascope, Contumazá, Otuzco, Trujillo
Sub-basin area
808,4km²
Upstream area
4 499,8km²
Discharge
11,11m³/s
Mean elev.
611m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080414050330 km²
- Bassin de Río De San Benito32 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Ascope779.8 km²96.9% of basin
- 20.9 km²2.6% of basin
- Otuzco2.8 km²0.3% of basin
- Trujillo1.4 km²0.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
148 distinct species · 367 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Chicama : 30 espèces reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
19,5°C
Annual rain
103mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,93
Runoff
39mm/an
PET
1 538mm
AET
87mm
Mean slope
11,5°
Water table
820cm
Forest
5%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)