HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080602010
Bassin · #6080602010
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 : Antabamba, Chumbivilcas, La Unión
Sub-basin area
416,2km²
Upstream area
416,4km²
Discharge
7,95m³/s
Mean elev.
4 848m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 410.4 km²99.0% of basin
- 3.8 km²0.9% of basin
- ChumbivilcasCusco · Peru0.5 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Subcuenca del Cotahuasi
IUCN VLandscape Reserve
410.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 34 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°
1,8°C
Annual rain
742mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
534mm/an
PET
965mm
AET
585mm
Mean slope
12,8°
Water table
654cm
Forest
1%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)