HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080885110
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 2 administrative regions : Belgrano, Lavalle
Sub-basin area
4,6km²
Upstream area
126 166,4km²
Discharge
107,4m³/s
Mean elev.
465m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Salado491 km²
- Bassin de Río Salado391 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2.4 km²51.0% of basin
- 2.3 km²49.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lagunas de Guanacache, Desaguadero y del Bebedero
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
4.29 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 6 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°
17,8°C
Annual rain
323mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
16mm/an
PET
1 551mm
AET
274mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
8cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)