HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080181980
Bassin de Río Guayas
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 : Cartagena del Chairá, El Doncello, Puerto Rico
Sub-basin area
134km²
Upstream area
5 504,6km²
Discharge
322m³/s
Mean elev.
240m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Guayas759 km²
- Bassin de Río Anaya657 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 110.3 km²82.7% of basin
- 22.7 km²17.0% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 9 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
2 868mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
2 174mm/an
PET
1 639mm
AET
1 546mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
38cm
Forest
6%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)