HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080883360
Bassin de Río Salado
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 : Ayacucho, Belgrano, Lavalle
Sub-basin area
1 169,1km²
Upstream area
124 683,9km²
Discharge
107,97m³/s
Mean elev.
552m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #60808807202532 km²
- Bassin de Río Salado1439 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 835.4 km²71.5% of basin
- 328.8 km²28.1% of basin
- 4.2 km²0.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lagunas de Guanacache, Desaguadero y del Bebedero
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
701.23 km² overlap
Sierra de las Quijadas
IUCN IINational Park
476.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
305 distinct species · 3 319 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Salado : 28 espèces reliées par 44 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
17,7°C
Annual rain
327mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
1 532mm
AET
276mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
248cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
41%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)