HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080412890
Bassin de Río De San Benito
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 4 administrative regions : Ascope, Contumazá, Gran Chimú, Otuzco
Sub-basin area
149,1km²
Upstream area
2 757km²
Discharge
11,7m³/s
Mean elev.
883m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cascas215 km²
- Bassin de Río Chuquillanqui207 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 85.4 km²57.5% of basin
- Ascope59.7 km²40.2% of basin
- 2.4 km²1.6% of basin
- Otuzco1.1 km²0.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
19 distinct species · 59 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 4 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 De San Benito : 4 espèces reliées par 3 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 50.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
19,5°C
Annual rain
239mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
73mm/an
PET
1 583mm
AET
203mm
Mean slope
18,4°
Water table
848cm
Forest
5%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)