HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080923630
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
38,8km²
Upstream area
21 223,6km²
Discharge
135,74m³/s
Mean elev.
648m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Colorado1003 km²
- Bassin de Arroyo del Mercado549 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 21.1 km²54.2% of basin
- 17.8 km²45.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
14,0°C
Annual rain
157mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
34mm/an
PET
1 415mm
AET
136mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
621cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)