HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080861190
Bassin de Río de los Patillos
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 across 2 countries : Calingasta, Limarí
Sub-basin area
453,4km²
Upstream area
453,4km²
Discharge
0,61m³/s
Mean elev.
3 621m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 452.5 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Río Sasso
IUCN Not ReportedNature Sanctuary
0.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 26 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°
1,3°C
Annual rain
172mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
54mm/an
PET
798mm
AET
168mm
Mean slope
18,4°
Water table
900cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)