HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080896760
Bassin de Río Areco
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 : Capitán Sarmiento, Carmen de Areco, Salto, San Andrés de Giles, San Antonio de Areco
Sub-basin area
1 310,1km²
Upstream area
2 110km²
Discharge
26,6m³/s
Mean elev.
47m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Arroyo Las Yucas408 km²
- Bassin de Arroyo de Ranchos391 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 640.1 km²48.9% of basin
- 470.1 km²35.9% of basin
- 128.7 km²9.8% of basin
- 46.9 km²3.6% of basin
- 23.9 km²1.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
441 distinct species · 4 981 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Areco : 32 espèces reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
16,6°C
Annual rain
1 022mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
412mm/an
PET
1 396mm
AET
866mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
23cm
Forest
3%
Crops
56%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)