HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080738310
Bassin de Río San Juan del Oro
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Modesto Omiste, Santa Catalina, Sur Chichas, Sur Lipez
Sub-basin area
256,2km²
Upstream area
6 938,1km²
Discharge
5,68m³/s
Mean elev.
3 841m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Morokho799 km²
- Bassin de Río San Juan del Oro572 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 191.9 km²75.1% of basin
- 54.1 km²21.2% of basin
- 9.6 km²3.7% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Laguna de los Pozuelos - Zona de amortiguamiento
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
21.98 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
24 distinct species · 269 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°
9,5°C
Annual rain
165mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,88
Runoff
30mm/an
PET
1 400mm
AET
141mm
Mean slope
14,0°
Water table
881cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)