HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080507680
Bassin de Río Huaura
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 2 administrative regions : Huaura, Oyon
Sub-basin area
262,8km²
Upstream area
263,1km²
Discharge
1,92m³/s
Mean elev.
3 639m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 259.2 km²99.0% of basin
- 2.6 km²1.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 14 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°
7,0°C
Annual rain
522mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
242mm/an
PET
1 108mm
AET
442mm
Mean slope
23,4°
Water table
937cm
Forest
26%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)