HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080567510
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 2 administrative regions : Abancay, La Convención
Sub-basin area
50,4km²
Upstream area
26 003,1km²
Discharge
571,76m³/s
Mean elev.
3 001m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Apurimac1028 km²
- Bassin de Río Yanama226 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 34.2 km²68.2% of basin
- La ConvenciónCusco · Peru15.9 km²31.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Choquequirao
IUCN VIRegional Conservation Area
0.95 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 8 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°
14,5°C
Annual rain
925mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
700mm/an
PET
1 518mm
AET
781mm
Mean slope
28,0°
Water table
857cm
Forest
30%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)