HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080678590
Bassin de Río Lauca
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 : Sabaya, Sajama
Sub-basin area
333,6km²
Upstream area
3 705,8km²
Discharge
0,09m³/s
Mean elev.
3 948m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin de Quebrada Plazuela265 km²
- Bassin · #6080679270264 km²
- Bassin de Río Lauca23 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 191.1 km²57.5% of basin
- 141.4 km²42.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 21 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°
6,3°C
Annual rain
277mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,77
Runoff
5mm/an
PET
1 227mm
AET
240mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
603cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)