HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080520920
Bassin de Río Huitiricaya
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 : La Convención
Sub-basin area
244,7km²
Upstream area
244,7km²
Discharge
11,05m³/s
Mean elev.
445m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- La ConvenciónCusco · Peru243.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Machiguenga
IUCN VICommunal Reserve
11.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 18 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
1 706mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
1 413mm/an
PET
1 816mm
AET
1 408mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
168cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)