HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080731930
Bassin de Quebrada Sama
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 : El Loa, NA, Tocopilla
Sub-basin area
2 386,5km²
Upstream area
2 387,2km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
2 245m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1313.9 km²55.2% of basin
- 674.6 km²28.3% of basin
- 391.6 km²16.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 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°
12,5°C
Annual rain
17mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,99
Runoff
0mm/an
PET
1 298mm
AET
18mm
Mean slope
6,6°
Water table
1 162cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)