HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080615780
Bassin de Río Challana
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 : Larecaja, Los Andes, Murillo
Sub-basin area
1 772,3km²
Upstream area
1 772,6km²
Discharge
9,36m³/s
Mean elev.
2 651m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1720.4 km²97.4% of basin
- 31.4 km²1.8% of basin
- 14.3 km²0.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 044 distinct species · 3 370 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°
14,6°C
Annual rain
1 014mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
179mm/an
PET
1 334mm
AET
853mm
Mean slope
25,6°
Water table
918cm
Forest
66%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)