HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080876830
Bassin de Río Blanco
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 : Calingasta
Sub-basin area
12,1km²
Upstream area
1 140,4km²
Discharge
4,59m³/s
Mean elev.
2 995m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río de los Teatinos723 km²
- Bassin de Río Volcán406 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 12.1 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Manantiales
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve of Defense
12.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 11 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°
4,5°C
Annual rain
254mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
120mm/an
PET
922mm
AET
230mm
Mean slope
13,8°
Water table
685cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)