HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080449210
Bassin de Río Santa
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 6 administrative regions : Asunción, Carhuaz, Huaraz, Huaylas, Santa +1
Sub-basin area
1 539,6km²
Upstream area
4 536,2km²
Discharge
93,71m³/s
Mean elev.
3 697m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Santa436 km²
- Bassin de Quebrada Honda279 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 596.3 km²38.9% of basin
- 506.1 km²33.0% of basin
- 429.0 km²28.0% of basin
- 1.2 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Huascarán National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
403.64 km² overlap
Huascarán
IUCN IINational Park
403.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 126 distinct species · 23 609 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 Santa : 25 espèces reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
8,7°C
Annual rain
605mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
593mm/an
PET
1 253mm
AET
495mm
Mean slope
21,8°
Water table
793cm
Forest
16%
Crops
9%
Urban
2%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)