HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080902800
Bassin de Río Atuel
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 1 administrative regions : San Rafael
Sub-basin area
869,9km²
Upstream area
5 259,4km²
Discharge
44,6m³/s
Mean elev.
1 351m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Atuel541 km²
- Bassin · #6080903980305 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 869.8 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Laguna La Salina
IUCN VINature Reserve
2.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 5 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°
11,9°C
Annual rain
296mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
47mm/an
PET
1 324mm
AET
253mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
35cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)