HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080898220
Bassin de Río Cachapoal
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 : Cachapoal, Cordillera, Melipilla
Sub-basin area
2 316,8km²
Upstream area
4 350,8km²
Discharge
64,87m³/s
Mean elev.
976m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cortaderal1427 km²
- Bassin de Río Blanco607 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2306.5 km²99.6% of basin
- Melipilla7.8 km²0.3% of basin
- 2.0 km²0.1% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Cerro Poqui
IUCN Not ReportedNature Sanctuary
10.06 km² overlap
Roblería del Cobre de Loncha
IUCN Not ReportedNational Reserve
2.35 km² overlap
Río Los Cipreses
IUCN Not ReportedNational Reserve
1.55 km² overlap
Palmas de Cocalán
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
0.54 km² overlap
Cruz de Piedra
IUCN Not ReportedNature Sanctuary
0.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 075 distinct species · 25 618 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Cachapoal : 32 espèces reliées par 57 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.3%, 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°
12,3°C
Annual rain
686mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
348mm/an
PET
1 251mm
AET
512mm
Mean slope
12,0°
Water table
466cm
Forest
4%
Crops
15%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)