HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080787960
Bassin de Río Salado
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 6 administrative regions : Capital, Cerrillos, Chicoana, Guachipas, La Viña +1
Sub-basin area
418,2km²
Upstream area
33 745,3km²
Discharge
71,73m³/s
Mean elev.
1 404m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río El Tunal476 km²
- Bassin de Río Salado87 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 164.1 km²39.3% of basin
- 158.1 km²37.9% of basin
- 71.8 km²17.2% of basin
- 22.9 km²5.5% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
200 distinct species · 1 313 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Salado : 21 espèces reliées par 28 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
16,6°C
Annual rain
537mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
81mm/an
PET
1 512mm
AET
454mm
Mean slope
17,1°
Water table
729cm
Forest
59%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)