HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080804980
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 4 administrative regions : Chicligasta, Monteros, Santa María, Tafí del Valle
Sub-basin area
1 687km²
Upstream area
6 195,8km²
Discharge
27,61m³/s
Mean elev.
2 824m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080810230387 km²
- Bassin de Río Santa María48 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1542.8 km²91.6% of basin
- 113.8 km²6.8% of basin
- 25.8 km²1.5% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Aconquija
IUCN IINational Park
0.91 km² overlap
La Florida
IUCN IaProvincial Park
0.03 km² overlap
Quebrada del Portugués
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
521 distinct species · 5 697 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 39 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
11,5°C
Annual rain
213mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,82
Runoff
201mm/an
PET
1 230mm
AET
185mm
Mean slope
12,1°
Water table
464cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)