HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080763920
Bassin de Río de las Burras
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 5 administrative regions : Cochinoca, Humahuaca, La Poma, Tilcara, Tumbaya
Sub-basin area
1 130,3km²
Upstream area
10 976,3km²
Discharge
23,43m³/s
Mean elev.
3 650m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río de Moreno862 km²
- Bassin · #608076769040 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 810.7 km²71.9% of basin
- 289.1 km²25.6% of basin
- 15.0 km²1.3% of basin
- 8.9 km²0.8% of basin
- 4.0 km²0.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Quebrada de Humahuaca
IUCN VProtected Landscape
25.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
563 distinct species · 1 626 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 9 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río de las Burras : 7 espèces reliées par 8 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 22.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
8,4°C
Annual rain
160mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,88
Runoff
109mm/an
PET
1 311mm
AET
138mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
370cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)