HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080648390
Bassin de Río Tambo
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 : Arequipa, General Sánchez Cerro, Islay, Mariscal Nieto
Sub-basin area
2 723km²
Upstream area
10 394,2km²
Discharge
25,26m³/s
Mean elev.
2 674m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Tambo954 km²
- Bassin de Río Carumas682 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
302 distinct species · 574 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Tambo : 18 espèces reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
12,2°C
Annual rain
138mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,88
Runoff
21mm/an
PET
1 404mm
AET
118mm
Mean slope
17,9°
Water table
953cm
Forest
3%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)