Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080571720

Bassin de Río Pisco

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 : Castrovirreyna, Huaytara, Pisco

Pfafstetter: 67107525

Sub-basin area

249,5km²

Upstream area

1 862,1km²

Discharge

13,05m³/s

Mean elev.

2 830m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Pisco350 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Pisco
    Ica · Peru
    125.0 km²
    50.3% of basin
  • Huaytara
    Huancavelica · Peru
    72.2 km²
    29.1% of basin
  • Castrovirreyna
    Huancavelica · Peru
    51.4 km²
    20.7% of basin

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

Species present

10 distinct species · 10 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

10 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 6
6–5
6–5
6–5
< 6

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°

11,8°C

Annual rain

341mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,73

Runoff

126mm/an

PET

1 398mm

AET

287mm

Mean slope

25,3°

Water table

956cm

Forest

22%

Crops

24%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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