HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080853910
Bassin de Río Pichanas
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 : Cruz del Eje
Sub-basin area
471,6km²
Upstream area
35 954,2km²
Discharge
26,72m³/s
Mean elev.
254m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080854730598 km²
- Bassin de Río Pichanas469 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 471.2 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Salinas Grandes
IUCN VIMultiple Use Provincial Reserve
49.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
41 distinct species · 138 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°
20,3°C
Annual rain
474mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
11mm/an
PET
1 587mm
AET
401mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
17cm
Forest
48%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)