HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080754530
Bassin de Río Matancillas
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 : Humahuaca, Iruya
Sub-basin area
207,3km²
Upstream area
902,5km²
Discharge
0,64m³/s
Mean elev.
3 168m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Bacoya435 km²
- Bassin de Río Nazareno260 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 206.5 km²99.8% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Las Yungas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
80.10 km² overlap
Quebrada de Humahuaca
IUCN VProtected Landscape
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
34 distinct species · 108 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°
11,2°C
Annual rain
313mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
146mm/an
PET
1 470mm
AET
265mm
Mean slope
27,9°
Water table
1 040cm
Forest
11%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)