HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080820360
Bassin de Guanchin
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 2 administrative regions : Tinogasta, Vinchina
Sub-basin area
2 549,9km²
Upstream area
5 189,2km²
Discharge
1,65m³/s
Mean elev.
3 484m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río de las Peladas1420 km²
- Bassin de Cazadero1219 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2541.3 km²99.8% of basin
- 4.5 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lagunas Altoandinas y Puneñas de Catamarca
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
120.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
392 distinct species · 3 260 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 Guanchin : 16 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 23 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.1%, 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°
7,9°C
Annual rain
107mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
1 092mm
AET
101mm
Mean slope
11,9°
Water table
874cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)