HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080891940
Bassin de Río Mapocho
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 5 administrative regions : Cordillera, Maipo, Melipilla, Santiago, Talagante
Sub-basin area
407,2km²
Upstream area
4 412,5km²
Discharge
31,91m³/s
Mean elev.
485m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zanjón de la Aguada1531 km²
- Bassin de Río Mapocho104 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Talagante183.0 km²45.0% of basin
- Santiago144.1 km²35.4% of basin
- 77.3 km²19.0% of basin
- Melipilla1.7 km²0.4% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Quebrada de La Plata
IUCN Not ReportedNatural Monument
10.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 121 distinct species · 57 089 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Mapocho : 29 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 63 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
15,0°C
Annual rain
398mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,71
Runoff
229mm/an
PET
1 387mm
AET
339mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
261cm
Forest
0%
Crops
15%
Urban
49%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)