HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080884200
Bassin de Río Mendoza
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
35,6km²
Upstream area
7 371,6km²
Discharge
54,35m³/s
Mean elev.
1 855m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Mendoza226 km²
- Bassin de Río Mendoza156 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 22.9 km²64.4% of basin
- 12.7 km²35.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
394 distinct species · 2 833 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Mendoza : 27 espèces reliées par 54 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
10,4°C
Annual rain
245mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
126mm/an
PET
1 239mm
AET
212mm
Mean slope
18,1°
Water table
911cm
Forest
4%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)