HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080908520
Bassin de Río Melado
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 2 administrative regions : Linares, Talca
Sub-basin area
473,1km²
Upstream area
2 290,6km²
Discharge
87,32m³/s
Mean elev.
1 520m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río de la Puente395 km²
- Bassin de Río Guaiquivilo319 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 470.5 km²99.4% of basin
- 2.6 km²0.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Cajón del Río Achibueno
IUCN Not ReportedNature Sanctuary
2.54 km² overlap
Los Bellotos del Melado
IUCN Not ReportedNational Reserve
1.55 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
146 distinct species · 384 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Melado : 36 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 3.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
8,2°C
Annual rain
978mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,12
Runoff
919mm/an
PET
1 116mm
AET
602mm
Mean slope
25,0°
Water table
831cm
Forest
10%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)