HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080755530
Bassin de Río de Isculla
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 : Humahuaca, Iruya, Orán
Sub-basin area
382,6km²
Upstream area
382,6km²
Discharge
1,54m³/s
Mean elev.
3 462m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 326.2 km²85.5% of basin
- 54.1 km²14.2% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Las Yungas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
318.37 km² overlap
Quebrada de Humahuaca
IUCN VProtected Landscape
7.43 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 60 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
293mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
217mm/an
PET
1 375mm
AET
249mm
Mean slope
25,5°
Water table
964cm
Forest
17%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)