HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080461410
Bassin de Río Huallaga
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 9 administrative regions : Ambo, Dos de Mayo, Huamalíes, Huenuco, Lauricocha +4
Sub-basin area
5 820,2km²
Upstream area
9 585,8km²
Discharge
343,82m³/s
Mean elev.
2 890m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Andacancha2202 km²
- Bassin de Río Huallaga1563 km²
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 3770.0 km²65.0% of basin
- 897.5 km²15.5% of basin
- 490.7 km²8.5% of basin
- 383.0 km²6.6% of basin
- 227.2 km²3.9% of basin
- 21.7 km²0.4% of basin
- 3.6 km²0.1% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- Lauricocha0.7 km² · 0.0%
4 intersecting protected areas
Bosque Montano de Carpish
IUCN VIRegional Conservation Area
448.61 km² overlap
Tingo María
IUCN IINational Park
38.01 km² overlap
San Marcos
IUCN VIPrivate Conservation Area
9.86 km² overlap
Unchog
IUCN VIPrivate Conservation Area
8.86 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 386 distinct species · 83 310 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 8 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 Huallaga : 8 espèces reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 25.0%, 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°
13,8°C
Annual rain
880mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
1 489mm/an
PET
1 476mm
AET
733mm
Mean slope
22,7°
Water table
770cm
Forest
41%
Crops
12%
Urban
2%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)