HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080850980
Bassin · #6080850980
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 4 administrative regions : Capayán, Chamical, Cruz del Eje, La Paz
Sub-basin area
87,3km²
Upstream area
2 756,9km²
Discharge
0,19m³/s
Mean elev.
186m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080850970269 km²
- Bassin · #608085086097 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 50.3 km²57.7% of basin
- 26.4 km²30.2% of basin
- 7.2 km²8.2% of basin
- 3.3 km²3.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 6 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°
20,9°C
Annual rain
439mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
5mm/an
PET
1 619mm
AET
371mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
4cm
Forest
1%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)