HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080937000
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 2 administrative regions : El Cuy, Picún Leufú
Sub-basin area
113,8km²
Upstream area
49 698km²
Discharge
782,54m³/s
Mean elev.
398m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cañadón del Trapo1052 km²
- Bassin de Arroyo Picún Leufú316 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 105.0 km²92.1% of basin
- 9.0 km²7.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
13,1°C
Annual rain
120mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
29mm/an
PET
1 265mm
AET
107mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
113cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)