HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080892210
Bassin de Río Maipo
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 : Maipo, Melipilla, Talagante
Sub-basin area
568,5km²
Upstream area
12 408,3km²
Discharge
142,17m³/s
Mean elev.
446m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Mapocho407 km²
- Bassin de Río Maipo330 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Melipilla407.9 km²71.8% of basin
- Talagante158.9 km²28.0% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Horcón de Piedra (Fundo Rinconada de Chocalán)
IUCN Not ReportedNature Sanctuary
18.79 km² overlap
Nature Sanctuary
6.94 km² overlap
San Juan de Piche
IUCN Not ReportedNational Reserve
0.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
795 distinct species · 11 872 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Maipo : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 57 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
15,3°C
Annual rain
494mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
180mm/an
PET
1 330mm
AET
415mm
Mean slope
11,5°
Water table
477cm
Forest
0%
Crops
23%
Urban
7%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)