Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080543130

Bassin de Río Vilca

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 : Huancavelica, Huancayo, Tayacaja

Pfafstetter: 62299961

Sub-basin area

13,2km²

Upstream area

3 064,7km²

Discharge

58,56m³/s

Mean elev.

3 595m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Mantaro610 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Huancavelica
    Huancavelica · Peru
    8.8 km²
    67.1% of basin
  • Huancayo
    Junín · Peru
    4.2 km²
    32.2% of basin
  • Tayacaja
    Huancavelica · Peru
    0.1 km²
    0.7% of basin

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

4 distinct species · 4 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

4 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 4
4–3
4–3
4–3
< 4

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

9,7°C

Annual rain

666mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,46

Runoff

652mm/an

PET

1 267mm

AET

568mm

Mean slope

21,1°

Water table

894cm

Forest

30%

Crops

5%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)