HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080413800
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 3 administrative regions : Ascope, Contumazá, Otuzco
Sub-basin area
32,1km²
Upstream area
3 361,2km²
Discharge
12,65m³/s
Mean elev.
669m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Santa Ana573 km²
- Bassin de Río De San Benito149 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Ascope27.3 km²85.6% of basin
- 4.4 km²13.7% of basin
- Otuzco0.2 km²0.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 10 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°
19,9°C
Annual rain
168mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
62mm/an
PET
1 578mm
AET
141mm
Mean slope
14,1°
Water table
900cm
Forest
1%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)