Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080611130

Bassin de Río Colca

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 : Caylloma, Espinar

Pfafstetter: 67104096

Sub-basin area

364,1km²

Upstream area

364,2km²

Discharge

5,15m³/s

Mean elev.

4 600m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Colca86 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Caylloma
    Arequipa · Peru
    360.3 km²
    99.3% of basin
  • Espinar
    Cusco · Peru
    2.5 km²
    0.7% 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.

Densité d'observations

1 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

2,5°C

Annual rain

779mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,24

Runoff

458mm/an

PET

1 034mm

AET

638mm

Mean slope

9,6°

Water table

515cm

Forest

1%

Crops

4%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)