HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080799690
Bassin de Río Grande
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 : Belén, San Carlos, Santa María
Sub-basin area
506,3km²
Upstream area
506,5km²
Discharge
3,11m³/s
Mean elev.
4 328m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 445.6 km²88.2% of basin
- 54.3 km²10.7% of basin
- 5.5 km²1.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Laguna Blanca
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
4.21 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
4,5°C
Annual rain
156mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,84
Runoff
200mm/an
PET
996mm
AET
144mm
Mean slope
11,4°
Water table
577cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)