HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080860520
Bassin de Río San Francisco
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
1 642,2km²
Upstream area
1 642,2km²
Discharge
2,02m³/s
Mean elev.
4 055m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1540.7 km²93.9% of basin
- 94.0 km²5.7% of basin
- 5.9 km²0.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Río Cochiguaz
IUCN Not ReportedNature Sanctuary
0.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 13 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°
-0,3°C
Annual rain
177mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,74
Runoff
40mm/an
PET
738mm
AET
175mm
Mean slope
22,7°
Water table
1 071cm
Forest
2%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)