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
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Uchubamba291 km²
- Bassin · #6080613580110 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 205.5 km²42.1% of basin
- 204.3 km²41.8% of basin
- CondesuyosArequipa · Peru78.7 km²16.1% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Subcuenca del Cotahuasi
IUCN VLandscape Reserve
204.56 km² overlap
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°
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)