HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080848180
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 2 administrative regions : San Cristóbal, Vera
Sub-basin area
152,6km²
Upstream area
183 907,2km²
Discharge
280,5m³/s
Mean elev.
54m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Salado1438 km²
- Bassin de Arroyo Golondrinas324 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 116.4 km²76.3% of basin
- 36.1 km²23.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 10 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°
19,7°C
Annual rain
974mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
165mm/an
PET
1 553mm
AET
825mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
10cm
Forest
32%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
79%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)