HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080772700
Bassin · #6080772700
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 across 2 countries : El Loa, Los Andes
Sub-basin area
359,8km²
Upstream area
359,9km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
4 198m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 219.9 km²61.3% of basin
- 139.1 km²38.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Los Andes
IUCN VINature Wildlife Reserve
139.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 16 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°
5,7°C
Annual rain
62mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,95
Runoff
14mm/an
PET
1 137mm
AET
61mm
Mean slope
4,1°
Water table
691cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
44%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)