HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080627520
Bassin · #6080627520
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 : Arequipa, General Sánchez Cerro, San Román
Sub-basin area
110,2km²
Upstream area
110,2km²
Discharge
0,67m³/s
Mean elev.
4 492m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 80.8 km²73.6% of basin
- 26.3 km²24.0% of basin
- ArequipaArequipa · Peru2.6 km²2.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
2,9°C
Annual rain
606mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
197mm/an
PET
1 014mm
AET
515mm
Mean slope
10,1°
Water table
546cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)