HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080901070
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
234,8km²
Upstream area
179 442,7km²
Discharge
166,74m³/s
Mean elev.
459m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Salado641 km²
- Bassin de Río Salado129 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 79.2 km²33.7% of basin
- 79.0 km²33.7% of basin
- 76.5 km²32.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 9 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°
16,3°C
Annual rain
416mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
6mm/an
PET
1 554mm
AET
352mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
471cm
Forest
0%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)