HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080847570
Bassin de Río Turbio (Elqui)
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 across 2 countries : Calingasta, Elqui, Iglesia
Sub-basin area
2 951,8km²
Upstream area
2 951,8km²
Discharge
3,02m³/s
Mean elev.
3 717m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2924.8 km²99.2% of basin
- 21.2 km²0.7% of basin
- 2.5 km²0.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
San Guillermo - Zona de amortiguamiento
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
9.48 km² overlap
San Guillermo
IUCN IIProvincial Park
9.48 km² overlap
Río Cochiguaz
IUCN Not ReportedNature Sanctuary
0.87 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
389 distinct species · 6 422 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Turbio (Elqui) : 22 espèces reliées par 28 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.9%, 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°
1,2°C
Annual rain
134mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,82
Runoff
29mm/an
PET
787mm
AET
137mm
Mean slope
24,1°
Water table
1 105cm
Forest
1%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)