HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080928450
Bassin de Río Biobío
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 : Bío-Bío, Malleco
Sub-basin area
3,1km²
Upstream area
4 313,2km²
Discharge
155,28m³/s
Mean elev.
786m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Biobío1116 km²
- Bassin de Río Chaviquin743 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1.8 km²56.5% of basin
- 1.4 km²43.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Araucarias
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
1.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
21 distinct species · 40 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°
10,6°C
Annual rain
2 204mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,46
Runoff
1 197mm/an
PET
1 200mm
AET
861mm
Mean slope
15,6°
Water table
609cm
Forest
100%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)