HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080790980
Bassin de Quebrada Vaquillas
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 1 administrative regions : Antofagasta
Sub-basin area
870,7km²
Upstream area
870,9km²
Discharge
0,07m³/s
Mean elev.
3 093m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- AntofagastaAntofagasta · Chile868.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Llullaillaco
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
1.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 12 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°
10,8°C
Annual rain
12mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,99
Runoff
2mm/an
PET
1 223mm
AET
16mm
Mean slope
5,0°
Water table
1 098cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)