HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080603560
Bassin · #6080603560
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 1 administrative regions : La Unión
Sub-basin area
257,1km²
Upstream area
998,1km²
Discharge
17,99m³/s
Mean elev.
4 803m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080602010416 km²
- Bassin · #6080602000325 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Subcuenca del Cotahuasi
IUCN VLandscape Reserve
256.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
20 distinct species · 26 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°
1,9°C
Annual rain
725mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
462mm/an
PET
975mm
AET
576mm
Mean slope
13,8°
Water table
754cm
Forest
2%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)