HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080588950
Bassin de Río Nuñoa
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 : Canchis, Carabaya, Melgar
Sub-basin area
345,3km²
Upstream area
345,3km²
Discharge
7m³/s
Mean elev.
4 857m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 340.5 km²99.0% of basin
- 2.0 km²0.6% of basin
- 1.5 km²0.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 10 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°
2,0°C
Annual rain
782mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,21
Runoff
897mm/an
PET
994mm
AET
646mm
Mean slope
14,8°
Water table
637cm
Forest
1%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)