HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080890830
Bassin de Río Colorado
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 6 administrative regions across 2 countries : Cordillera, Los Andes, Luján de Cuyo, Santiago, Tunuyán +1
Sub-basin area
1 662,4km²
Upstream area
1 662,4km²
Discharge
23,79m³/s
Mean elev.
3 427m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1642.0 km²98.8% of basin
- 12.3 km²0.7% of basin
- Los AndesValparaíso · Chile2.6 km²0.2% of basin
- 2.5 km²0.1% of basin
- Santiago2.4 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Glaciares de Santiago
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
726.08 km² overlap
Volcán Tupungato
IUCN IIProvincial Park
11.38 km² overlap
Predios San Francisco de Lagunilla y Quillayal
IUCN Not ReportedNational Reserve
3.67 km² overlap
Yerba Loca
IUCN Not ReportedNature Sanctuary
3.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
621 distinct species · 8 582 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Colorado : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 44 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 8.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
1,3°C
Annual rain
471mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
397mm/an
PET
820mm
AET
400mm
Mean slope
26,5°
Water table
955cm
Forest
0%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)