HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080925000
Bassin de Río Neuquén
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 : Chos Malal, Loncopué, Pehuenches, Ñorquín
Sub-basin area
220,8km²
Upstream area
12 045,9km²
Discharge
214,96m³/s
Mean elev.
981m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Arroyo Chacayco405 km²
- Bassin de Río Neuquén98 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 101.2 km²45.8% of basin
- 65.6 km²29.7% of basin
- 53.8 km²24.4% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 8 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°
12,6°C
Annual rain
223mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,83
Runoff
205mm/an
PET
1 358mm
AET
191mm
Mean slope
9,8°
Water table
528cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)