HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080883060
Bassin de Río Las Cuevas
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 : Las Heras, Luján de Cuyo
Sub-basin area
2,9km²
Upstream area
2 441,7km²
Discharge
29,03m³/s
Mean elev.
2 674m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Tupungato1766 km²
- Bassin de Río Las Cuevas673 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2.5 km²85.7% of basin
- 0.4 km²14.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cordon del Plata
IUCN IIProvincial Park
1.75 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
98 distinct species · 299 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Las Cuevas : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
7,1°C
Annual rain
285mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
203mm/an
PET
1 017mm
AET
256mm
Mean slope
25,2°
Water table
1 828cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)