HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080836100
Bassin de Quebrada La Plata
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 : Huasco
Sub-basin area
226,7km²
Upstream area
2 788,9km²
Discharge
1,24m³/s
Mean elev.
2 759m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Chollay775 km²
- Bassin de Quebrada El Corral214 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
29 distinct species · 35 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°
5,4°C
Annual rain
65mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,93
Runoff
18mm/an
PET
943mm
AET
72mm
Mean slope
24,4°
Water table
1 110cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)