HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080679550
Bassin de Río Cosapa
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 : Litoral, Sajama
Sub-basin area
319,4km²
Upstream area
1 850km²
Discharge
0,59m³/s
Mean elev.
3 866m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cosapa360 km²
- Bassin de Río Cosapa209 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 299.0 km²93.9% of basin
- 19.4 km²6.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
7,2°C
Annual rain
287mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,77
Runoff
12mm/an
PET
1 272mm
AET
247mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
215cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)