HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080567450
Bassin de Río Apurimac
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 : Abancay, Anta, La Convención
Sub-basin area
1 027,6km²
Upstream area
25 726,8km²
Discharge
565,07m³/s
Mean elev.
3 250m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Colorado468 km²
- Bassin de Río Apurimac10 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 562.0 km²54.9% of basin
- 281.6 km²27.5% of basin
- La ConvenciónCusco · Peru180.2 km²17.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Choquequirao
IUCN VIRegional Conservation Area
201.40 km² overlap
de Ampay
IUCN IIINational Sanctuary
0.43 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
848 distinct species · 13 043 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Apurimac : 24 espèces reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
12,1°C
Annual rain
866mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
703mm/an
PET
1 446mm
AET
731mm
Mean slope
26,2°
Water table
987cm
Forest
14%
Crops
4%
Urban
1%
Protected
21%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)