HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080904100
Bassin de Río El Cobre
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 across 2 countries : Colchagua, Curicó, Malargüe
Sub-basin area
224,8km²
Upstream area
224,8km²
Discharge
4,6m³/s
Mean elev.
2 913m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 224.6 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
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°
3,3°C
Annual rain
695mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
635mm/an
PET
914mm
AET
512mm
Mean slope
20,7°
Water table
815cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)