HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080686860
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 3 administrative regions : Carangas, Litoral, Sajama
Sub-basin area
779,9km²
Upstream area
11 530,6km²
Discharge
1,49m³/s
Mean elev.
3 774m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Lauca1390 km²
- Bassin de Río Lauca1 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 660.6 km²85.0% of basin
- 101.2 km²13.0% of basin
- 15.7 km²2.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 156 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°
8,0°C
Annual rain
268mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
20mm/an
PET
1 301mm
AET
230mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
257cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)