HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080788220
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 3 administrative regions : Capital, General Güemes, Metán
Sub-basin area
304,2km²
Upstream area
34 257,6km²
Discharge
72,72m³/s
Mean elev.
1 042m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Salado418 km²
- Bassin de Río La Troja208 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 142.8 km²47.0% of basin
- 87.5 km²28.8% of basin
- 73.2 km²24.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
204 distinct species · 413 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 : 31 espèces reliées par 32 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 4.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
18,0°C
Annual rain
609mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
72mm/an
PET
1 565mm
AET
515mm
Mean slope
7,1°
Water table
507cm
Forest
87%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)