HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080681030
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 3 administrative regions : Cercado, Poopó, Saucarí
Sub-basin area
465,9km²
Upstream area
466,1km²
Discharge
0,72m³/s
Mean elev.
3 700m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 371.3 km²79.9% of basin
- 76.5 km²16.5% of basin
- 16.7 km²3.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Poopo
IUCN Not ReportedNational Heritage Ecological Reserve
104.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 30 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°
9,1°C
Annual rain
321mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
36mm/an
PET
1 351mm
AET
273mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
11cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)