HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080043790
Bassin de Cañadón de Méndez
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 : Nueve de Julio
Sub-basin area
546,1km²
Upstream area
546,3km²
Discharge
1,43m³/s
Mean elev.
1 079m
Administrative coverage
1 intersecting protected areas
Meseta de Somuncurá
IUCN VIProtected Nature Area
546.87 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
9,5°C
Annual rain
195mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,83
Runoff
43mm/an
PET
1 120mm
AET
173mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
1 135cm
Forest
2%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)