HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080576470
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 : Cotabambas, Paruro
Sub-basin area
144,1km²
Upstream area
4 579,8km²
Discharge
106,38m³/s
Mean elev.
3 560m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Challhuahuacho1185 km²
- Bassin · #6080578900422 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 73.7 km²51.4% of basin
- ParuroCusco · Peru69.8 km²48.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
25 distinct species · 52 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°
10,0°C
Annual rain
780mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
643mm/an
PET
1 340mm
AET
659mm
Mean slope
21,5°
Water table
831cm
Forest
20%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)