HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080934620
Bassin de Río Limay
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 : Confluencia, El Cuy, General Roca
Sub-basin area
1 313,8km²
Upstream area
59 804,7km²
Discharge
762,16m³/s
Mean elev.
436m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin de Zanjón Colector2426 km²
- Bassin de Río Limay2067 km²
- Bassin de NEXO 4. Acueducto Marí Menuco - Neuquén1220 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 959.3 km²73.0% of basin
- 355.6 km²27.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Valle Cretacico
IUCN VProtected Landscape
381.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
481 distinct species · 67 838 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Limay : 35 espèces reliées par 49 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
13,5°C
Annual rain
153mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,88
Runoff
18mm/an
PET
1 320mm
AET
133mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
540cm
Forest
9%
Crops
1%
Urban
7%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)