HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080660460
Bassin de Río Desaguadero
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 5 administrative regions : Aroma, Gualberto Villarroel, Pacajes, Sajama, San Pedro de Totora
Sub-basin area
2 256,6km²
Upstream area
82 148,5km²
Discharge
675,23m³/s
Mean elev.
3 847m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Sulloma2056 km²
- Bassin de Rio Lupini498 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 902.0 km²40.1% of basin
- 621.3 km²27.6% of basin
- 387.7 km²17.2% of basin
- 278.9 km²12.4% of basin
- 59.4 km²2.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Huancaroma
IUCN Not ReportedWildlife Refuge
1.95 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
60 distinct species · 256 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 Desaguadero : 18 espèces reliées par 22 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
8,1°C
Annual rain
347mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,74
Runoff
39mm/an
PET
1 320mm
AET
296mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
387cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)