HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080822640
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 3 administrative regions : Figueroa, Juan Felipe Ibarra, Sarmiento
Sub-basin area
246,3km²
Upstream area
73 972km²
Discharge
62,72m³/s
Mean elev.
141m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080820980239 km²
- Bassin de Río Salado191 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 111.5 km²45.3% of basin
- 99.0 km²40.3% of basin
- Sarmiento35.5 km²14.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 18 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°
21,1°C
Annual rain
581mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
21mm/an
PET
1 733mm
AET
490mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
12cm
Forest
68%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)