HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080796510
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 5 administrative regions : Anta, Copo, Metán, Pellegrini, Rosario de la Frontera
Sub-basin area
562,5km²
Upstream area
43 799,3km²
Discharge
63,86m³/s
Mean elev.
402m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080795100593 km²
- Bassin de Río Salado457 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 181.3 km²32.3% of basin
- 144.6 km²25.8% of basin
- Pellegrini144.3 km²25.7% of basin
- 66.1 km²11.8% of basin
- 25.1 km²4.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
20,9°C
Annual rain
664mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
22mm/an
PET
1 659mm
AET
561mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
194cm
Forest
58%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)