HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080691250
Bassin de Rio 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 : Litoral, Sabaya
Sub-basin area
820,3km²
Upstream area
15 770,7km²
Discharge
3,61m³/s
Mean elev.
3 725m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin de Rio Sabaya2599 km²
- Bassin de Quebrada Huaijata586 km²
- Bassin de Rio Lauca88 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 815.1 km²99.7% of basin
- 2.8 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 5 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°
7,9°C
Annual rain
218mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,83
Runoff
3mm/an
PET
1 276mm
AET
188mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
167cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)