HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080889160
Bassin de Río Desaguadero
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, Santa Rosa
Sub-basin area
661,1km²
Upstream area
134 903,1km²
Discharge
107,82m³/s
Mean elev.
534m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080887750862 km²
- Bassin de Río Salado357 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 378.0 km²57.2% of basin
- 279.5 km²42.3% of basin
- 3.4 km²0.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lagunas de Guanacache, Desaguadero y del Bebedero
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
63.90 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
261 distinct species · 2 670 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Desaguadero : 19 espèces reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.4%, 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°
17,1°C
Annual rain
339mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
3mm/an
PET
1 537mm
AET
287mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
305cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)