HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080571430
Bassin de Rio Colorado
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 : Anta, La Convención, Urubamba
Sub-basin area
468,1km²
Upstream area
468,1km²
Discharge
10,84m³/s
Mean elev.
3 719m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 457.3 km²98.1% of basin
- UrubambaCusco · Peru8.5 km²1.8% of basin
- La ConvenciónCusco · Peru0.5 km²0.1% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Misquiyaco
IUCN VIPrivate Conservation Area
17.96 km² overlap
Choquequirao
IUCN VIRegional Conservation Area
15.12 km² overlap
de Machupicchu
IUCN IIIHistoric Sanctuary
2.70 km² overlap
Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
2.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
723 distinct species · 19 047 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Rio Colorado : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 35 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.0%, 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°
9,4°C
Annual rain
804mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
729mm/an
PET
1 308mm
AET
678mm
Mean slope
23,7°
Water table
890cm
Forest
15%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
71%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)