HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080882970
Bassin de Río de las Vacas
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 : Calingasta, Las Heras, Luján de Cuyo
Sub-basin area
556,1km²
Upstream area
556,2km²
Discharge
2,84m³/s
Mean elev.
4 142m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 546.4 km²98.3% of basin
- 9.4 km²1.7% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Cerro Aconcagua
IUCN IIProvincial Park
401.73 km² overlap
Uspallata
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve of Defense
208.50 km² overlap
Manantiales
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve of Defense
1.31 km² overlap
Cordon del Plata
IUCN IIProvincial Park
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
75 distinct species · 185 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río de las Vacas : 17 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
-2,4°C
Annual rain
349mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
155mm/an
PET
663mm
AET
311mm
Mean slope
24,3°
Water table
1 117cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
72%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)