HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080749270
Bassin de Río Loa
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 : Antofagasta, El Loa, Tocopilla
Sub-basin area
210,4km²
Upstream area
11 749,9km²
Discharge
0,87m³/s
Mean elev.
1 506m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080750760223 km²
- Bassin de Río Loa63 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 206.8 km²98.6% of basin
- AntofagastaAntofagasta · Chile2.6 km²1.2% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 13 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°
15,7°C
Annual rain
10mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,99
Runoff
3mm/an
PET
1 364mm
AET
9mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
878cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)