HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080676100
Bassin de Quebrada Cardones
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 1 administrative regions : Arica
Sub-basin area
339,6km²
Upstream area
339,6km²
Discharge
0,04m³/s
Mean elev.
2 376m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Arica338.5 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Quebrada Cardones
IUCN Not ReportedNatural Monument
99.46 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
148 distinct species · 626 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Quebrada Cardones : 20 espèces reliées par 19 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
12,9°C
Annual rain
63mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,95
Runoff
4mm/an
PET
1 421mm
AET
53mm
Mean slope
13,8°
Water table
900cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
29%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)