HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080485350
Bassin de Quebrada Carahuanta
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 1 administrative regions : Atalaya
Sub-basin area
591,3km²
Upstream area
198 852,5km²
Discharge
6 176,63m³/s
Mean elev.
376m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cohengua2129 km²
- Bassin de Río Ucayali945 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
El Sira
IUCN VICommunal Reserve
87.71 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
103 distinct species · 861 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Quebrada Carahuanta : 18 espèces reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
25,5°C
Annual rain
1 891mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
1 822mm/an
PET
1 786mm
AET
1 487mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
128cm
Forest
95%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
70%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)