HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080886220
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 4 administrative regions : Belgrano, La Capital, La Paz, Lavalle
Sub-basin area
194,6km²
Upstream area
131 831,4km²
Discharge
108,18m³/s
Mean elev.
476m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080885150240 km²
- Bassin de Río Salado5 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 75.4 km²38.8% of basin
- 65.7 km²33.8% of basin
- 46.7 km²24.0% of basin
- 6.7 km²3.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lagunas de Guanacache, Desaguadero y del Bebedero
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
67.77 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 9 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°
17,6°C
Annual rain
317mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
10mm/an
PET
1 550mm
AET
268mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
26cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)