HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080692500
Bassin de Río Pilcomayo
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 1 administrative regions : Tomás Frías
Sub-basin area
47,1km²
Upstream area
4 290,9km²
Discharge
4,96m³/s
Mean elev.
3 586m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Pilcomayo1433 km²
- Bassin de Rio Tarapaya1198 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 47.0 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 4 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°
11,7°C
Annual rain
460mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
83mm/an
PET
1 377mm
AET
390mm
Mean slope
17,7°
Water table
986cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)