HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080614480
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 2 administrative regions : Caravelí, Lucanas
Sub-basin area
150,5km²
Upstream area
3 319km²
Discharge
9,03m³/s
Mean elev.
1 418m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Yauca476 km²
- Bassin de Río Yauca163 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 146.5 km²97.7% of basin
- 3.4 km²2.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 20 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°
17,2°C
Annual rain
42mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,97
Runoff
33mm/an
PET
1 611mm
AET
34mm
Mean slope
21,8°
Water table
1 050cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)