Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080568320

Bassin de Río Chiris

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 : Castrovirreyna, Pisco

Pfafstetter: 67107527

Sub-basin area

598,1km²

Upstream area

1 126,6km²

Discharge

10,26m³/s

Mean elev.

4 008m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Pisco250 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Castrovirreyna
    Huancavelica · Peru
    594.7 km²
    99.8% of basin
  • Pisco
    Ica · Peru
    1.1 km²
    0.2% of basin

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

Species present

22 distinct species · 74 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

74 obs · 9 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 31
31–30
11–30
2–10
< 2

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°

5,9°C

Annual rain

701mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,32

Runoff

277mm/an

PET

1 096mm

AET

562mm

Mean slope

19,2°

Water table

694cm

Forest

25%

Crops

13%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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