HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080799040
Bassin de Río Santa María
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 : Cafayate
Sub-basin area
452,2km²
Upstream area
8 894,4km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
2 103m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Santa María1539 km²
- Bassin de Río Santa María263 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Quebrada de Cafayate
IUCN VIManaged Nature Reserve
35.52 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
644 distinct species · 12 387 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Santa María : 25 espèces reliées par 43 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.1%, 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°
14,2°C
Annual rain
198mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
182mm/an
PET
1 335mm
AET
169mm
Mean slope
9,5°
Water table
408cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)