HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080340320
Bassin de Río Piura
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 2 administrative regions : Lambayeque, Morropón
Sub-basin area
505,5km²
Upstream area
2 363,6km²
Discharge
16,12m³/s
Mean elev.
410m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Pata1160 km²
- Bassin de Río Bigote697 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 502.0 km²99.7% of basin
- LambayequeLambayeque · Peru1.3 km²0.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Regional Conservation Area
84.30 km² overlap
Private Conservation Area
17.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
156 distinct species · 918 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Piura : 24 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,9°C
Annual rain
293mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,84
Runoff
174mm/an
PET
1 806mm
AET
246mm
Mean slope
14,0°
Water table
800cm
Forest
25%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)