HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080930660
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 3 administrative regions : Curacó, General Roca, Puelén
Sub-basin area
251,6km²
Upstream area
31 557,8km²
Discharge
106,14m³/s
Mean elev.
269m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Colorado951 km²
- Bassin de Río Colorado850 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 144.6 km²57.4% of basin
- 87.7 km²34.8% of basin
- 19.5 km²7.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Embalse Casa de Piedra
IUCN VINature Reserve
63.90 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
189 distinct species · 3 236 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 45 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.5%, 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°
14,8°C
Annual rain
250mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,83
Runoff
10mm/an
PET
1 437mm
AET
212mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
129cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)