HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080544530
Bassin de Río Huantán
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 : Yauyos
Sub-basin area
422,7km²
Upstream area
422,7km²
Discharge
7,26m³/s
Mean elev.
4 543m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 intersecting protected areas
Nor Yauyos - Cochas
IUCN VLandscape Reserve
3.46 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
24 distinct species · 27 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°
2,6°C
Annual rain
849mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
505mm/an
PET
921mm
AET
640mm
Mean slope
20,4°
Water table
831cm
Forest
6%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)