HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080922450
Bassin de Río Polcura
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Bío-Bío, Diguillín, Minas, Punilla
Sub-basin area
907,3km²
Upstream area
907,4km²
Discharge
34,05m³/s
Mean elev.
1 698m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 482.5 km²53.2% of basin
- 420.7 km²46.4% of basin
- 2.7 km²0.3% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Corredor Nevados de Chillán- Laguna del Laja
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
905.06 km² overlap
Ñuble
IUCN Not ReportedNational Reserve
576.88 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
165 distinct species · 848 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Polcura : 26 espèces reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
6,7°C
Annual rain
1 165mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
1 044mm/an
PET
1 039mm
AET
615mm
Mean slope
20,7°
Water table
808cm
Forest
47%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
63%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)