HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080576880
Bassin de Rio Vilcabamba
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, Grau
Sub-basin area
13,1km²
Upstream area
3 241,2km²
Discharge
64,72m³/s
Mean elev.
2 991m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Vilcabamba767 km²
- Bassin de Rio Vilcabamba273 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 9.5 km²72.6% of basin
- 3.6 km²27.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
13,5°C
Annual rain
789mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
631mm/an
PET
1 499mm
AET
668mm
Mean slope
29,8°
Water table
1 595cm
Forest
43%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)