HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080900880
Bassin de Río Salado
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 : General Alvear, Gobernador Dupuy, La Capital
Sub-basin area
129,4km²
Upstream area
178 566,2km²
Discharge
166,36m³/s
Mean elev.
456m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Salado421 km²
- Bassin de Río Salado216 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 48.6 km²37.6% of basin
- 41.2 km²31.8% of basin
- 39.6 km²30.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
16,4°C
Annual rain
415mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
9mm/an
PET
1 554mm
AET
351mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
420cm
Forest
4%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)