HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080786470
Bassin de Río Petrero
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 : Cachi, La Poma, Rosario de Lerma
Sub-basin area
313,8km²
Upstream area
313,8km²
Discharge
1,95m³/s
Mean elev.
3 200m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 225.8 km²72.1% of basin
- 78.5 km²25.1% of basin
- 8.9 km²2.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 32 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°
9,8°C
Annual rain
169mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,87
Runoff
169mm/an
PET
1 273mm
AET
146mm
Mean slope
12,9°
Water table
694cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)