HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080511850
Bassin de Río Chico
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 : Huaral, Huaura
Sub-basin area
678,3km²
Upstream area
678,4km²
Discharge
4,85m³/s
Mean elev.
2 906m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 430.8 km²63.8% of basin
- 244.8 km²36.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 20 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°
10,1°C
Annual rain
399mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
247mm/an
PET
1 226mm
AET
331mm
Mean slope
22,5°
Water table
845cm
Forest
21%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)