HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080917000
Bassin de Río Barrancas
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 : Malargüe, Pehuenches
Sub-basin area
4,6km²
Upstream area
2 715km²
Discharge
36,83m³/s
Mean elev.
1 396m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Barrancas579 km²
- Bassin de Arroyo Chadileu397 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 4.2 km²92.0% of basin
- 0.4 km²8.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
10,8°C
Annual rain
314mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,75
Runoff
253mm/an
PET
1 277mm
AET
269mm
Mean slope
19,4°
Water table
853cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)