HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080539900
Bassin de Río Mantaro
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 3 administrative regions : Huanta, La Convención, Satipo
Sub-basin area
439,5km²
Upstream area
34 669km²
Discharge
802,81m³/s
Mean elev.
1 332m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Mantaro1656 km²
- Bassin de Río Mantaro540 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 300.7 km²68.7% of basin
- SatipoJunín · Peru136.9 km²31.3% of basin
- La ConvenciónCusco · Peru0.2 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 7 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°
21,4°C
Annual rain
1 389mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
1 130mm/an
PET
1 780mm
AET
1 157mm
Mean slope
20,3°
Water table
663cm
Forest
93%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)