HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080923030
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 2 administrative regions : Malargüe, Pehuenches
Sub-basin area
1 002,7km²
Upstream area
20 636,3km²
Discharge
135,07m³/s
Mean elev.
847m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Colorado1466 km²
- Bassin de Río Colorado727 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 637.6 km²63.6% of basin
- 365.6 km²36.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Auca Mahuida
IUCN VIMultiple Use Nature Reserve
41.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
169 distinct species · 371 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 : 23 espèces reliées par 48 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
13,3°C
Annual rain
150mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
33mm/an
PET
1 381mm
AET
129mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
666cm
Forest
2%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)