HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080259220
Bassin de Río Pupuña
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 : Puerto Arica
Sub-basin area
2 401,5km²
Upstream area
2 402,1km²
Discharge
168,08m³/s
Mean elev.
129m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2390.9 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
122 distinct species · 175 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
3 084mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,47
Runoff
2 209mm/an
PET
1 619mm
AET
1 619mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
8cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)