HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080891010
Bassin de Arroyo San Carlos
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 1 administrative regions : San Carlos
Sub-basin area
1 260,8km²
Upstream area
4 600,9km²
Discharge
12,48m³/s
Mean elev.
1 319m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Arroyo Papagayos2117 km²
- Bassin de Río Yaucha1224 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1260.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Laguna del Diamante
IUCN IINature Reserve
11.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
370 distinct species · 2 010 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Arroyo San Carlos : 28 espèces reliées par 57 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.7%, 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°
11,9°C
Annual rain
354mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
68mm/an
PET
1 359mm
AET
301mm
Mean slope
4,9°
Water table
570cm
Forest
9%
Crops
1%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)