HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080069740
Bassin de Río Portuguesa
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 : Esteller, Ospino, Papelón
Sub-basin area
88,4km²
Upstream area
4 756,7km²
Discharge
89,38m³/s
Mean elev.
91m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Guache1448 km²
- Bassin de Río Portuguesa777 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 65.2 km²74.0% of basin
- 12.0 km²13.6% of basin
- 10.9 km²12.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
1 640mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
508mm/an
PET
1 794mm
AET
1 212mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
8cm
Forest
41%
Crops
60%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)