HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080617260
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 4 administrative regions : Caravelí, Condesuyos, La Unión, Paucar del Sara Sara
Sub-basin area
490,3km²
Upstream area
6 331km²
Discharge
40,39m³/s
Mean elev.
2 848m
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°
12,0°C
Annual rain
309mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
83mm/an
PET
1 435mm
AET
262mm
Mean slope
26,2°
Water table
1 165cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)