HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080617160
Bassin de Cotahuasi Canyon
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 : Condesuyos, La Unión, Paucar del Sara Sara
Sub-basin area
1 143,6km²
Upstream area
4 386,3km²
Discharge
46,42m³/s
Mean elev.
3 631m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
8,1°C
Annual rain
508mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
145mm/an
PET
1 264mm
AET
422mm
Mean slope
21,3°
Water table
841cm
Forest
12%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)