HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080923760
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
255,7km²
Upstream area
21 835,1km²
Discharge
136,01m³/s
Mean elev.
706m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Arroyo Los Pocitos356 km²
- Bassin de Río Colorado39 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 153.7 km²60.1% of basin
- 102.1 km²39.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 25 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°
13,8°C
Annual rain
160mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
32mm/an
PET
1 404mm
AET
137mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
895cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)