HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080256430
Bassin de Río Puré
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 : La Pedrera, Puerto Arica, Tarapacá
Sub-basin area
1 047,3km²
Upstream area
1 047,3km²
Discharge
76,47m³/s
Mean elev.
133m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 632.8 km²60.7% of basin
- 336.2 km²32.2% of basin
- 73.6 km²7.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Río Puré
IUCN IINational Natural Park
1038.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
68 distinct species · 82 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
3 128mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
2 300mm/an
PET
1 612mm
AET
1 612mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
5cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)