HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080681310
Bassin de Rio Aroma
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
184,2km²
Upstream area
5 890,6km²
Discharge
6,54m³/s
Mean elev.
3 695m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Caqueza1766 km²
- Bassin de Rio Aroma13 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 82.9 km²45.1% of basin
- 71.2 km²38.8% of basin
- 29.6 km²16.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Poopo
IUCN Not ReportedNational Heritage Ecological Reserve
81.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 11 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°
9,3°C
Annual rain
314mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,77
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
1 349mm
AET
266mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
13cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)