HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080935600
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 : Caleu Caleu, Pichi Mahuida
Sub-basin area
60,3km²
Upstream area
290 439,4km²
Discharge
162,94m³/s
Mean elev.
67m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Colorado1206 km²
- Bassin de Río Colorado109 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 32.2 km²53.4% of basin
- 28.1 km²46.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
15,2°C
Annual rain
364mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
24mm/an
PET
1 345mm
AET
310mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
104cm
Forest
6%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)