HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080920660
Bassin de Río Colorado
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 : Chos Malal, Malargüe, Pehuenches
Sub-basin area
1 720,8km²
Upstream area
15 552km²
Discharge
128,08m³/s
Mean elev.
1 550m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Grande1450 km²
- Bassin de Río Barrancas451 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 965.2 km²56.1% of basin
- 557.0 km²32.4% of basin
- 199.3 km²11.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Parque Provincial El Tromen
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
121.35 km² overlap
El Tromen
IUCN IIProvincial Park
95.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
202 distinct species · 576 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 48 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 Colorado : 36 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 56 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 5.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
10,1°C
Annual rain
267mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,77
Runoff
176mm/an
PET
1 244mm
AET
231mm
Mean slope
7,1°
Water table
458cm
Forest
2%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)