HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080656840
Bassin de Rio Cañuma
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 2 administrative regions : Pacajes, Sajama
Sub-basin area
550,5km²
Upstream area
550,5km²
Discharge
0,72m³/s
Mean elev.
4 028m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 548.7 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
57 distinct species · 157 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°
7,1°C
Annual rain
383mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,69
Runoff
37mm/an
PET
1 251mm
AET
327mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
905cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)