HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080611880
Bassin de Río Yauca
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 : Caravelí, Lucanas, Parinacochas
Sub-basin area
162,5km²
Upstream area
2 693,2km²
Discharge
7,89m³/s
Mean elev.
1 762m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Lampalla775 km²
- Bassin de Río Lampalla565 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 160.8 km²99.3% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.4% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.3% 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°
16,2°C
Annual rain
88mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,94
Runoff
50mm/an
PET
1 604mm
AET
72mm
Mean slope
22,9°
Water table
1 030cm
Forest
2%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)