HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080941110
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 : Collón Curá, Pilcaniyeu
Sub-basin area
194,6km²
Upstream area
32 099,3km²
Discharge
659,17m³/s
Mean elev.
739m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Arroyo Pilquiniyeu298 km²
- Bassin de Río Limay210 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 111.4 km²57.2% of basin
- 83.4 km²42.8% 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°
10,4°C
Annual rain
290mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,74
Runoff
186mm/an
PET
1 130mm
AET
253mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
339cm
Forest
3%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)