HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080886610
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 : La Capital, La Paz, Lavalle
Sub-basin area
82,7km²
Upstream area
132 750,1km²
Discharge
108,34m³/s
Mean elev.
469m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Salado837 km²
- Bassin de Río Salado195 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 79.7 km²96.4% of basin
- 2.8 km²3.3% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lagunas de Guanacache, Desaguadero y del Bebedero
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
10.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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
314mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
9mm/an
PET
1 553mm
AET
265mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
18cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)