Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080573190

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, Chincha, Pisco

Pfafstetter: 67107522

Sub-basin area

313,3km²

Upstream area

313,3km²

Discharge

0,63m³/s

Mean elev.

2 277m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Pisco691 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Pisco
    Ica · Peru
    309.4 km²
    99.1% of basin
  • Chincha
    Ica · Peru
    2.0 km²
    0.6% of basin
  • Castrovirreyna
    Huancavelica · Peru
    0.7 km²
    0.2% of basin

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

Species present

2 distinct species · 20 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

20 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 19
19–18
19–18
19–18
< 19

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°

13,9°C

Annual rain

176mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,87

Runoff

66mm/an

PET

1 485mm

AET

148mm

Mean slope

20,8°

Water table

833cm

Forest

11%

Crops

11%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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